Prof Aoife Lowery

Professor Aoife Lowery is a consultant breast surgeon at Galway University Hospital and Professor in Surgery at the University of Galway.

A medical graduate of the University of Galway, Aoife completed her specialist surgical training on the RCSI Higher Surgical Training Programme and an International surgical fellowship in AP-HM (Hopitaux Universitaires de Marseille) France. She was one of the first Clinician Scientist Fellows funded by Molecular Medicine Ireland and completed her PhD investigating microRNA expression and function in breast cancer at the University of Galway.

Aoife is currently a recipient of the Irish Cancer Society Clinical Research Leadership award and a principal investigator in the Women’s Health Initiative cancer survivorship programme co-funded by the Irish Cancer Society and the National Breast Cancer Research Institute. 

She is an associate director of the Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) PhD programme and a clinical advisor and mentor on the Bioinnovate Ireland fellowship programme. She has recently been appointed as Clinical Lead for the HRB-CRFG.