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2011 Winter Meeting Original Communication Winner
Congratulations to Orla Power (WP1), University of Limerick who presented the best Poster Communication entitled A comparison of the insulinotropic and enterogastric response to ingestion of an equiva
Dr Peter OBrien
Contact Details
Lecturer
College of Life Sciences
School of Agriculture, Food
Science & Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Science Centre
Belfield Dublin 4
Tel: +353 (0)1 7166048
Email: peter.james.obrien@ucd.ie
Academic Background
After Peter's DVM training in Saskatchewan he obtained his PhD in Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology in Minnesota, then his board certification in Veterinary Clinical Pathology in Guelph, where he served on faculty for 7 years. Peter was recruited into toxicological clinical pathology in the pharmaceutical industry for 10 years, where he specialised in diagnostics and in the development of clinical pathology tests. He has published over 100 scientific papers. He recently moved back into academia at the University College Dublin where he is staff clinical pathologist at the Veterinary Hospital. Peter served as President of the European Society and College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, and is currently on the board as Past President. He is scientific secretary for the Association of Comparative Clinical Pathology.
Research Interests
Peter's research interests are in the areas of biomarker development for veterinary, comparative and toxicologic clinical pathology. At the organ level his research has especially focused on cardiac, muscle and liver pathology / toxicity, and at the subcellular level on intermediary metabolism, mitochondrial function, calcium homeostasis, and oxidative stress. His current favourite technological approaches are cell culture, high content analysis, flow cytometry, enzymology and immunoassay.