Dr. Micheál Mac Aogáin is Senior Clinical Biochemist at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a BSc in Genetics (2006), a PhD in Microbiology (2011), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics (TCD, 2012). He was awarded an IRC Fellowship in Bioinformatics (TCD–SJH, 2015–2016) and later appointed Visiting, then Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore. There he led on several data-intensive, multi-omic studies of international respiratory disease cohorts before returning to Ireland in 2020.
At St. James’s, Micheál applies his bioinformatic and biostatistical expertise to the department’s data-rich environment, expanding biochemical genetic testing and specialist diagnostics, with a focus on haem biosynthesis, iron disorders, and dyslipidaemia. He has introduced several accredited biochemical genetics tests and is particularly interested in using real-world data to interrogate genotype–phenotype associations that inform diagnostic decision-making and patient care. Micheál is committed to education and research, contributing to the MSc in Clinical Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin and supervising MSc and FRCPath projects within the department. He has published more than 80 scientific articles and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals.