Cian O’Connor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Tissue Engineering Research Group based in the Department of Anatomy & Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Cian obtained his Bachelor’s in Physiology from Trinity College Dublin. His Anatomical Society-funded PhD carried out in the Tissue Engineering Research Group focused on the development of biomaterial implants to deliver patient-derived stem cells for spinal cord injury repair.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Cian will travel to Prof David Mooney’s lab at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Boston, MA. Here Cian aims to utilize state-of-the-art viscoelastic biomaterials to enhance the therapeutic effectiveness of stem cells and further advance platforms for spinal cord injury repair applications.