David Finlay

David Finlay is Professor in Immunometabolism in the Schools of Biochemistry and Immunology, and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at Trinity College Dublin. He was awarded a B.A. (Mod) in Biochemistry in 2001. He completed his PhD (2006) and postdoctoral training at the University of Dundee in Scotland and was elected to fellowship of Trinity College Dublin in 2018. He has been a principal investigator in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute since 2011. His research expertise lies at the interface of immunology and cellular metabolism with a focus on Natural Killer cells and Dendritic cells. His team is revealing novel strategies to modulate immune cell function through targeting metabolism and metabolic signalling pathways. To achieve this requires the capacity to measure immune cell metabolism in vivo at the site of disease, for which his lab has developed numerous single cell assays. Dr Finlay’s research has been supported by awards including a European Research Council Consolidator Award in 2017 and an Irish Research Council Advances Laureate award in 2022.