DrRebecca Corrigan

Dr Rebecca Corrigan is an Associate Professor, Ad Astra Fellow and a Conway Fellow in the School of Medicine at UCD. She is a molecular microbiologist and her research interests include the study of the cell signalling, virulence and antibiotic resistance (AMR) mechanisms of the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.

Having graduated with a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Rebecca did her postdoctoral training at Imperial College London, before being awarded a Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship allowing her to establish her lab at the University of Sheffield in 2015. This award was renewed in 2019, when Rebecca was promoted to Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 2018, she was also awarded a Lister Institute Research Fellowship and is currently working as part of a Wellcome Trust Discovery international collaboration on AMR. Rebeccca returned to Ireland in 2024 to take up a position in UCD.