Steve W. Kerrigan
Prof. Steve Kerrigan is Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy in RCSI and Head of the Cardiovascular Infection Research Group which is part of the Irish Centre of Vascular Biology.Prof. Steve Kerrigan is an honours graduate in B.Sc Pharmacology from King's College University of London, UK and obtained an M.Sc in Immunopharmacology from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He received a PhD in Cardiovascular Infection specifically investigating platelet-bacterial interactions from RCSI in 2001. Following this he carried out postdoctoral research in the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Prof. Kerrigan was appointed lecturer in Pharmacology in the School of Pharmacy in 2008, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013 and Associated Professor in 2017. Prof. Kerrigan is a member of more than 10 international societies and was elected to Chartered status (CBiol) and Fellowship of the Society of Biology (FSB) which are the highest grades of membership of the professional body in 2013. Prof. Kerrigan is currently co-chair of the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific Standardization Committee in Biorheology.