Tara Moore PhD

Tara Moore is a Professor of Personalised Medicine, concurrently holds a chair at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, and is Chief R&D Officer for Avellino Labs in Menlo Park San Francisco USA.

Subsequent to her return home to Northern Ireland from Research fellowship training at Harvard Medical School, Tara has undertaken research sabbaticals in Mount Sinai Hospital New York, Dundee Wellcome Trust Laboratories, and The Stem Cell Institute at the University of Modena and Reggio. As a result of intensive training to obtain skills and expertise Tara has a wealth of experience working in Universities and industrial laboratories focusing on the development of partner diagnostics and treatment for genetic eye disease.

Tara’s research team concentrates on identifying genes that cause disease and developing gene editing and gene silencing treatments for autosomal dominantly inherited eye diseases. Her work is disseminated worldwide through her contribution to guest lectures and workshops and internationally co-authored peer-reviewed publications. Tara has contributed to numerous textbooks and authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals reflecting internationally competitive research of high quality - 1981 total citations, generating an h-index of 23 and i10-index of 38.

The culmination of Tara’s contribution to health, well-being, and safety and improving people’s lives whilst inspiring others to see the opportunities to make a difference through science was recognized with the prestigious WISE award presented by HRH Princess Anne and a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship.