Professional Activities

Positions Held & Appointments

2015-pres	Director of Biomedical Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine
2015-pres	External Examiner - PhD, Manchester University
2014-pres	External Examiner – PhD, Debrecen, Hungary
2014-pres	NTF Assessor
2014-2015	Associate Director of Biomedical Research Institute, Ulster University,  Coleraine
2014-pres	Member of Athena Swan Awards Panel Assessor, UK
2014-pres	Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (London) FRCP, FFLM.
2013-pres	Head of Vision Science Research Group (26 members), University of Ulster, Coleraine
2013-pres	Mentor for External Examiner of MSc in Clinical Health Management, University of Aston, Optometry Department
2012-pres	External Examiner for University of Aston, Optometry Department
2012-pres	Professor of Personalised Medicine, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2012-pres	Honorary Research Appointment, Ophthalmology Department, Mater & Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
2012-pres	Member of Athena Swan Self Assessment Team, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2012-pres	Visiting Scientist, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Modena, Italy
2012-pres	Ethical Review Committee Member, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2012-pres	Research and Innovation Faculty Committee Member, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2012-pres	External Examiner - Royal College of Surgeons, Professor Conor Murphy
2012-pres	Examiner - Teeside University Forensic Courses
2012-pres	Reviewer for National Teaching Fellowship Scheme
2011	Department of Justice, Northern Ireland DNA Database Governance Board
2009-pres	Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Molecular Medicine, University of Dundee
2009-pres	Champion of Core Action Business Group, University of Ulster, UK
2005-2012	Senior Lecturer, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2004- pres	Honorary Research Fellow, Bedford, Birmingham & Royal Group of Hospitals
2001-2005	Lecturer in Immunology, University of Ulster, Coleraine
2000-2001	Research Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Boston
1999-2000	Visiting Research Fellow, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York
1999-2001	Post–Doctoral Research associate, Fight for Sight, Depart of Ophthalmology, QUB
1998-1999	Post–Doctoral Research associate, Depart of Clinical Biochemistry, QUB
1994-1997	PhD student, Department of Immunology, QUB

Membership of External Organisations/Committees

2014	Program Committee, World Gene Convention, BIT Congress Inc
2012	Royal Irish Academy Committee for Life Sciences
2011	Bowman Club
2011	Senior Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine
2011	Medefield Healthcare Advisory Bureau Member
2010	Chair of Cathedral Eye Clinic Research Ethics Committee
2010	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2009	British Biochemical Society
2007	International Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society
2007	European Association for Vision and Eye Research
2007	TRG Vision Science and Infectious Diseases
2007	Ulster Immunology Group
2004	Higher Education Academy

Supervision of Research Students

Sagar Vyavahare	PhD student - current
Laura Mairs	PhD student - current
Eric Pazo	PhD Student - current
Richard McNeely	PhD Student - current
Eleonora Maurizi BSc.	PhD Student - current
David Courtney BSc.	PhD Student - current
Mr Edwin Allen BSc.	PhD student – Awarded 2014
Ms Samia Ojali BSc. MSc.	Distance PhD student- Awarded 2012
Dr William Tourney.	MD student – Awarded 2012
Mr Ravi Yaragandla BSc.	PhD student- Awarded 2010
Ms Sarah Atkinson BSc.	MRes student- Awarded Distinction1st in year 2005
Ms Joanna Graham MSc.	PhD student- Awarded 2006
Ms Donna Small BSc.	MPhil student- Awarded April 2006

• 15 MSc students Forensic and Legal Medicine- awarded 2008-10
• 16 MSc students Cataract and Refractive Surgery - current
• 10 MSc students Cataract and Refractive Surgery- awarded 2008-10
•  20+ MSc students Biomedical Sciences- awarded 2007-10

Supervision of Research Staff

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mr Davide Schiroli
• Research Assistant Mr Edwin Allen
• Lecturer in Personalised Medicine (Inflammator Disease) Dr Victoria Mc Gilligan
• Lecturer in Personalise Medicine Dr Sarah Atkinson
• Postdoctoral research associate Dr Shamaila Anwar
• Post doctoral research associate Dr Jo Graham
• Post doctoral research associate and medical doctor - Dr Ian Yeung
• Postdoctoral research associate and medical doctor - Dr Elena Novitskaya

Editorial / Reviewer Activities

2015-pres	Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Ophthalmology & Eye Science (IJOES)
2014-pres	Cornea, Reviewer
2014-pres	Honourable Editor for MOJ Clinical & Medical Case Reports.
2014-pres	Editorial Board Member for Clinical Ophthalmology Research
2014-pres	The Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) and Health Research Board Ireland (HRB) Reviewer
2014-pres	Editor for the Journal of Ocular Biology
2013-pres	International Journal of Molecular Sciences Reviewer
2013-pres	Academic Editor of Ophthalmology Research: An International Journal
2013-pres	Journal of Medical Microbiology Reviewer
2012-pres	British Journal of Ophthalmology Reviewer
2012-pres	Studies in Higher Education Reviewer
2012-pres	International editorial board member for Open Journal of Ophthalmology
2011-pres	Current Eye Research Reviewer
2010-pres	International editorial board member for Egyptian Journal FS
2009-pres	Journal of Medical Education Reviewer
2008-pres	Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Reviewer
2006-pres	Journal of Proteome Research Reviewer
2004-pres	Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Reviewer

Postgraduate Prizes, Awards and Achievements

2014	Prestigious WISE (Women in to Science & Engineering) Hero Award, London
2014	Women in Business, Northern Ireland.  Advancing Diversity in the Workplace Award
2014	6th Ocular Diseases & Drug Discovery Conference, March 2014. Sarah Atkinson gave an oral presentation at the recent GTC conference on ocular disease and drug discovery . Her abstract was chosen for the ‘Oral Presentations from Exemplary Submitted Abstracts’ section of the conference. This annual conference provides delegates with presentations on novel and innovative therapeutics for ocular disorders, providing excellent opportunities for networking to bring innovative treatments to ophthalmology patients.
2014	Vision Translational Research Group 2014 Conference, Belfast.  Professor Tara Moore is supervisor for the First Year PhD student, Eleonora Maurizi, who was awarded the best poster presentation prize award.  The poster presentation was ‘Development of Allele-specific Therapeutic siRNA Keratin 12 Leu132Pro in Meesmann's Epithelial Corneal Dystrophy’.
2014	Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship 2014.  Professor Tara Moore is Supervisor for the PhD who was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to enable him to travel out of the UK for a period of up to 8 weeks, to a laboratory of his choosing, to learn techniques that will further his PhD studies within Ulster.  This year there were 1,182 applicants of which 255 were interviewed in London.  David was one of the 137 applicants out of the 1182 who applied to be awarded a fellowship.
2013	Irish Society of Human Genetics 2013 Scientific Meeting.  Professor Tara Moore is supervisor for the PhD student who was awarded the ‘Young Investigator Award for Best Postgraduate Oral Presentation’.  The Oral presentation was ‘Assessment of allele-specific gene silencing siRNAs in an ex vivo pre-clinical model of lattice type I corneal dystrophy’.
2013	Irish Society of Human Genetics 2013 Scientific Meeting.  This poster presentation was awarded the best post-doctoral poster prize award.  SD Atkinson, AHM Heagerty, IM Leigh, C Pourreyron, I Szeverenyi, FJ Smith, CBT Moore, WHI McLean.  Development of therapeutic siRNA for an epidermolysis bullosa simplex causing mutation in keratin 5.
2012	University of Ulster Convocation Postgraduate Student of the Year Award 2012. Professor Tara Moore was supervisor for the MD postgraduate student who was awarded the convocation postgraduate student of the year award
2011	Selected for the 2012 Edition of Who’s Who in the World.
2011	NIH Institute of Ophthalmology Travel Grant Award to present at the ARVO Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
2011	Team research presented by post doctoral researcher has been honoured with a prestigious award recognising their work in the field of immunology. The 2011 Cora Verhagen Immunology Award was given to the best presentation of research at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
2009	Royal Society of Medicine and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine postgraduate research prize.  Dr Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student who was awarded the postgraduate research prize
2009	Most Read Paper awarded for manuscript, “Concordance between common dry eye diagnostic tests” ranked third in top 10 most read papers in the British Journal of Ophthalmology http://bjo.bmj.com/reports/mfr1.dtl
2006	Most read paper in Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine for the review by Hall JA
2008	& Moore CBT. 2008 Jul;15 (5):p 291-7.
2008	Royal Society of Medicine and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine postgraduate research prize.  Dr Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student who was awarded the postgraduate research prize. http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2009/4681.html
2007	International Society of Ocular Oncology best poster presentation prize. Dr Tara Moore was supervisor for the postgraduate student awarded a prize for the research entitled: P63 expression in conjunctival proliferative diseases.
2007	Distinguished Research Fellowship Award. Dr Tara Moore was awarded the Distinguished Research Fellowship award by the University of Ulster in 2007 http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2007/3539.html
2005	National Teaching Fellowship Award. Dr Tara Moore was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship Award by the Higher Education Academy in 2005: http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2005/1834.html
2005	Rising Star HEA Award. £50K to pilot a new online postgraduate multi disciplinary program for professions allied to Ophthalmology
2004	Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award. Dr Tara Moore was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award by the University of Ulster http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2004/1467.html
2000	Pharmacia & Upjohn Travel Award for attendance at Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA.
2000	Dr. Samuel Ireland Turkington Research Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, QUB Support for secondment to Boston to conduct collaborative research.
2000	The Wellcome Trust Research Travel Grant. Tara Moore was awarded this for support for secondment to MEEI, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
1999	Pharmacia & Upjohn Travel Award for attendance at Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
1999	Research & Development Personal Bursary.  Support for secondment to MEEI, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Undergraduate Prizes

• 1994    Dr. Shirodaria Memorial Prize -highest final year exam results in Virology
• 1994    Randox Immunology Prize (finalist) - highest final year exam results

Teaching

Prizes

• 2005   National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) Higher Education Academy 
• 2004   Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award, UU, Coleraine