Liam O‘mahony BSc, MD, PhD

Dr. Liam O’Mahony received his BSc in Microbiology from University College Cork, Ireland in 1994 and his PhD in Immunology was awarded in 1998 by Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Thereafter, Dr. O’Mahony performed post-doctoral research at the Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Department of Medicine, University College Cork and the Digestive Diseases Division, UCLA.

Dr. O’Mahony was a Principal Investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, University College Cork, from 2003 to 2008. Since 2009, he is the head of Molecular Immunology at the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests are focused on the molecular basis for microbe and metabolite modulation of mucosal inflammatory responses.