Professor Martin O'Halloran

Prof. O’Halloran holds a joint academic position between the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine at University of Galway. He is the Director of the Translational Medical Device Lab, the first medical device lab to be embedded within a regional hospital and co-located with a clinical trials facility. He is also Executive Director of the BioInnovate Programme. He currently leads a team of over 25 researchers, developing medical device technology across a diverse range of clinical areas. He has received several awards for his research, including Engineer of the Year (2014), SFI’s Young researcher of the Year (2016) and the Irish Research Council’s Inaugural Researcher of the Year 2018.

 

Martin is an active entrepreneur and has co-founded several medical device companies, including Luminate Medical and Relevium Bio.