Eamonn Gormley

 

I am Director of The TB diagnostics and Immunology Research laboratory at UCD. The principal focus of the laboratory is diagnostic blood testing on TB infected animals, used as a tool to assist in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis from the national cattle herd. The laboratory also conducts significant research into improving the performance of the blood test by investigating different antigen combinations, novel antigens and different cytokine assay platforms. I also direct the wildlife BCG vaccination research programme for the national Dept of Agriculture, Food & the Marine (DAFM). Vaccination of badgers against tuberculosis now forms a key part of the national strategy to eradicate the disease from cattle.

Byrne AW, Barrett D, Breslin P, Fanning J, Casey M, Madden JM, Lesellier S, Gormley E. (2022) Bovine tuberculosis in youngstock cattle: A narrative review. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9:1000124. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1000124.

Correia CN, McHugo GP, Browne JA, McLoughlin KE, Nalpas NC, Magee DA, Whelan AO, Villarreal-Ramos B, Vordermeier HM, Gormley E, Gordon SV, MacHugh DE. (2022) High-resolution transcriptomics of bovine purified protein derivative-stimulated peripheral blood from cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis across an experimental time course. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 136:102235. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2022.102235.

Smith GC, Barber A, Breslin P, Birch C, Chambers M, Dave D, Hogarth P, Gormley E, Lesellier S, Balseiro A, Budgey R. (2022) Simulating partial vaccine protection: BCG in badgers. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 204:105635. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105635.

Gormley E, Ní Bhuachalla D, Fitzsimons T, O'Keeffe J, McGrath G, Madden JM, Fogarty N, Kenny K, Messam LLM, Murphy D, Corner LAL. (2021) Protective immunity against tuberculosis in a free-living badger population vaccinated orally with Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 1-10. doi: 10.1111/tbed.14254.

Clegg TA, Doyle M, Ryan E, More SJ, Gormley E. (2019) Characteristics of Mycobacterium bovis infected herds tested with the interferon-gamma assay. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 168:52-59. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.04.00

Gormley E, Corner LAL. (2018) Wild animal tuberculosis: stakeholder value systems and management of disease. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 5:327. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2018.00327.