Research Interests

Number(s) of Senior Fellows, Research Fellows, post docs, PhD students and technicians

7 post docs (2 senior)

2 Research Senior Registrars

3 PhD students

2 MD students

2 MSc students

2 Technicians

Funding :

Health Research Board €150K

Wellcome Trust €190K

SFI €3.5million via APC (CSET)

GSK/IDA €3.4million

PRTLI I-3  €480K

Publications

Has published over 180 papers and numerous books on the pharmacology and neurobiology of affective disorders. Papers have been published widely in journals such as Nature, Brain Research, British Medical Journal, Gastroenterology, American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 

Established a Campus Company called Neurocure with VC backing.

Several patents filed including

• Dinan TG, Keeling PWN 2001 Treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal disease using agonists and/or partial agonists of 5HT1a receptors.  US Patent application no. 09/687,384
• Dinan TG, Keeling PWN  Method for the diagnosis of a dysfunction of 5HT receptors.  European patent no. 90310262.2  (0419237).
• Dinan TG, Keeling PWN  2000  Diagnosis and Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Based on Demonstrated  Central Cholinergic Supersensitivity.  Irish patent application no. 2000/1803
• Dinan TG, Keeling PWN Diagnosis and treatment of non-ulcer dyspepsia based on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis abnormality.  Irish patent application no. 2000/0616.
• Dinan TG, Kenny DJ   Diagnosing risk of development of cardiovascular disease in patients with major depression.  International Application No. PCT/IE00/00098.

Ted Dinan

Ted Dinan is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Cork. He was previously Chair of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor of Psychological Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Prior to that he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin.

He has worked in research laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic and has a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has published over 180 papers and numerous books on the pharmacology and neurobiology of affective disorders. His papers have been published widely in journals such as Nature, Brain Research, British Medical Journal, American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.