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Professor Tríona Lally

Professor in BioEngineering (Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng)
PARSONS BUILDING
      
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Professor Tríona Lally

Professor in BioEngineering (Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng)
PARSONS BUILDING

 lallyca@tcd.ie

 3531896 3159


Dr. Caitríona Lally received her BEng (Mechanical Engineering) and MEng (Biomedical Engineering) degrees from University of Limerick and later obtained a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in the area of arterial biomechanics and cardiovascular stenting. In March 2004 she took up a lecturing position in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University, and was appointed senior lecturer in 2014. In 2015, she joined the Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College Dublin as a Professor in Bioengineering where she continues to carry out research focused on arterial tissue mechanics, vascular imaging, vascular mechanobiology and tissue engineering. She has secured considerable research funding from SFI, Enterprise Ireland and the IRC and was awarded an ERC starting grant in 2014.
  Bioengineering   BIOMATERIALS   Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering   Design Engineering   Materials Engineering   Medical Devices
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Member of the European Society of Biomechanics 2004 present
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland (RAMI) and President of the Bioengineering section (2023-) 2004 Present
Member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland (MIEI) 2004 Present
Member of the committee for the Biomedical Division of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland 2006 2009
PI in the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering 2004 Present
PI in the SFI AMBER Centre 2017 Present
Celia Hughes, Alix Whelan, David O'Reilly, Evelyn Campbell, Caitriona Lally, Aortic valve leaflet assessment to inform novel bioinspired materials: Understanding the impact of collagen fibres on the tissue's mechanicam behaviour, Journal of the mechanical behaviour of biomedical materials, 163, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Petrousek, S.R. and Kronemberger, G.S. and O'Brien, G. and Hughes, C. and O'Rourke, S.A. and Lally, C. and Dunne, A. and Kelly, D.J. and Hoey, D.A., Mechano-immunomodulation of macrophages influences the regenerative environment of fracture healing through the regulation of angiogenesis and osteogenesis, Acta Biomaterialia, 200, 2025, p187 â€" 201 , Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stone, A.J.*, Tornifoglio, B.*, Digeronimo, F., Shmueli, K., Lally, C., Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the human carotid artery: Assessing sensitivity to elastin and collagen ex vivo, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Tornifoglio, B. and Hughes, C. and Digeronimo, F. and Guendouz, Y. and Johnston, R.D. and Lally, C., Imaging the microstructure of the arterial wall â€" ex vivo to in vivo potential, Acta Biomaterialia, 199, 2025, p18 â€" 34 , Notes: [Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Hybrid Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
B. Tornifoglio, S. T. Robinson, R. E. Levey, A. J. Stone, S. Campisi, C. Kerskens, G. P. Duffy, S. Avril, C. Lally, A preliminary ex vivo diffusion tensor imaging study of distinct aortic morphologies, Journal of Anatomy, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Bose S., Akbarzadeh Khorshidi M., Johnston R.D., Watschke B., Mareena E., Lally C., Experimental testing combined with inverse-FE for mechanical characterisation of penile tissues, Acta Biomaterialia, 179, 2024, p180 - 191, p180-191 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Keeffe C., Kotlarz M., Goncalves I.F., Lally C., Kelly D.J., Chemical etching of Ti-6Al-4V biomaterials fabricated by selective laser melting enhances mesenchymal stromal cell mineralization, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Hughes, C., Whelan, A., O"Reilly, D., Campbell, E., Lally, C., Aortic Valve Leaflet Assessment: Understanding the Impact of Collagen Microstructure on Leaflet Mechanical Behaviour, SSRN, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Khorshidi, M.A., Bose, S., Watschke, B., Mareena, E., Lally, C., Characterisation of Human Penile Tissue Properties Using Experimental Testing Combined with Multi-Target Inverse Finite Element Modelling, SSRN, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Akbarzadeh Khorshidi, M., Bose, S., Watschke, B., Mareena, E., Lally, C., Characterisation of human penile tissue properties using experimental testing combined with multi-target inverse finite element modelling, Acta Biomaterialia, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Robert Gaul, Caitriona Lally, Strain mediated enzyme degradation of arterial tissue characterised by small angle light scattering, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland., Belfast, Ireland, 2017, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Alix Whelan, Robert Gaul, Paul Gunning, Caitriona Lally, Investigation of Collagen Fibre Orientation in Bovine Pericardium, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Belfast, 20/01/17, 2017, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Robert Gaul, Caitriona Lally, Load induced changes in collagen fibre architecture in arteries characterised by small angle light scattering, Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 2016, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Robert Gaul, Caitriona Lally, The use of small angle light scattering for the characterisation of collagen fibre orientation in arteries, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Section of Bioengineering of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, Kildare, Ireland, 2015, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Simulation of in-stent restenosis for the design of cardiovascular stents in, G. Holzpafel & R. Ogden , Mechanics of Biological Tissue, Springer, 2006, pp255 - 267, [Lally, C, Prendergast, PJ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  


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ERC Starting Grant 2014
Senior author on research paper which was awarded 2nd prize for the Engineers Ireland - IMECHE Young Engineers Research Award 2012
Career Start Grant (DCU) 2005
Royal Society of Medicine in Ireland, 1st prize for best student paper 2004
Royal Society of Medicine in Ireland, 2nd prize for best student paper 2002
Bernard Crossland Symposium, 2nd prize for best student paper 2002
Sylvestor O'Halloran Surgical Meeting, 1st prize in poster presentation 2002
ERC PoC grant 2021