BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:VEVENT UID:447@inflames.utu.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251112T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20251112T153000 DTSTAMP:20251106T102317Z URL:https://inflames.utu.fi/events/guest-lecture-professor-luke-oneill/ SUMMARY:IMMUNOCAPs Visiting Professor Seminar by Professor Luke O'Neill DESCRIPTION:When: November 12\, 2025 at 14:30–15:30\nWhere: Säätiö lec ture room\, Medisiina D\nSpeaker: Professor Luke O'Neill\, Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland\nTitle: Prospects for new anti-inflammatory therapeutics that target immunometabolism\n\nFlyer\n\nThe seminar is open to everyone. Coffee and tea is served before the seminar from 14:00 onwards.\nHost: Ce cilia Söderberg-Nauclér ( cecilia.naucler (at) utu.fi )\n\nAbout the spe aker:\n\nLuke O’Neill is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Bioc hemistry and Immunology\, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland. He is a world expert on innate immunity and inf lammation. He is listed by Thompson Reuters/ Clarivates in the top 1% of i mmunologists in the world\, based on citations per paper. Professor O'Neil l is a co-founder of Sitryx\, which aims to develop new medicines for infl ammatory diseases. Another company he co-founded\, Inflazome was acquired by Roche in 2020 and is carrying out trials in Parkinson’s Disease\, Sev ere Asthma and Heart disease using new therapeutics based on his work.\n\n He was awarded the Royal Dublin Society / Irish Times Boyle Medal for scie ntific excellence\, the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal for Life Sciences\, the European Federation of Immunology Societies Medal\, the Landsteiner A ward from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Science Foundation Irel and Science Communicator of the Year award 2020\, for his media work durin g the COVID19 pandemic. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy\, EMBO ( European Molecular Biology Organisation) a Fellow of the Royal Society and holds Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Massachusetts and Bath.\n \nLuke has a weekly science slot with Pat Kenny on Newstalk and a weekly c olumn on science in the Sunday Independent.    He has published several books including  Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence \,  The Great Irish Science Book\, Never Mind the B*ll*cks\, Here's the S cience (which won the An Post prize for best popular non-fiction book). I n 2021 he published Keep Calm and Trust the Science: A Remarkable Year in the Life of an Immunologist\, which is his diary covering the COVID-19 pan demic.   In 2023 he published To Boldly Go Where No Book has Gone Before\ , with Penguin Random House. His books have been translated into 8 languag es.\n\n Carpenter S\, O'Neill LAJ. From periphery to center stage: 50 ye ars of advancements in innate immunity. Cell. 2024 Apr 25\;187(9):2030-205 1. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.036.\n Murphy MP\, O'Neill LAJ.A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases. Nature (2024) Feb\;626(7998):271-279. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06866-z. Epub 2024 Feb 7.\n Pålsson-McDermott EM\, O'Neill LAJ Gang of 3: How the Krebs cyc le-linked metabolites itaconate\, succinate\, and fumarate regulate macrop hages and inflammation. Cell Metab. 2025 May 6\;37(5):1049-1059. doi: 10.1 016/j.cmet.2025.03.004\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inflames.utu.fi/wp-content/uploads/thumb nailLukeOn@150x.png CATEGORIES:Events in English,Tapahtumat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:EET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR