Dr Eileen Gibney

Contact Details

Lecturer

UCD Agriculture and Food Science Centre

School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine,

College of Life Sciences

UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Tel: +353 (0)1 7167118

Email: Eileen.gibney@ucd.ie

Academic Background

Dr. Eileen Gibney has worked in the area of human nutrition since 1997. Graduating with a degree in human nutrition from the University of Ulster at Coleraine, she then obtained her PhD from the Dunn Nutrition Unit, University of Cambridge in 2001. She went on to work on several human intervention trials, most recently establishing a hospital based clinical trial examining the effect of supplementation on biomarkers of colorectal cancer. Eileen also has considerable experience in collecting, collating and analysing dietary intake data, most recently examining the dietary intake of 2500 students in the Trinity Student Study. Since 2005 Eileen has been a lecturer at UCD in the department of Agriculture, Food Science.

Research Interests

Her current research interests lie in the molecular aspect of nutrition and disease, an area of nutrition research called Nutrigenomics obtaining an MSc in Molecular Medicine from TCD in 2003. Dr Gibney has successfully obtained funding for a couple of research projects including: Examination of the effect of genotype (PTC/PROP) on fruit and vegetable intake in children - Sensory/Taste genetics. Examination of effect of folate and/or riboflavin on methylation status (DNA and protein) of immortalised human cell lines. After joining UCD in 2005 Eileen has become intricately linked in several projects currently ongoing in the food and health research group in UCD, with responsibility of several cell based experiments and also human dietary intervention studies of novel products developed within the UCD research programme.