Future Dinners

Thursday 24 May 2012

Trinity Term Dinner

The Savile Club
  69 Brook Street  London W1K 4ER

7.00 for 7.30pm    Lounge Suit       Cost £58

Members May 2012 Dinner Booking Form

Speaker: Dr Patrick Prendergast (TCD 1987), Provost of Trinity College Dublin

Until his election as Provost in August 2011, Paddy Prendergast was Professor of Bio-Engineering at TCD and Vice Provost.

His research has been on mechanobiology - the science of how mechanical forces affect tissue growth and phenotype.  A prolific scholar, he has written more than 160 papers, edited numerous books and journals and picked up an assortment of awards. He is a founding member of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and is closely associated with securing funding for Trinity’s longitudinal study on ageing (Tilda).  He was also instrumental in the creation in 2009 of the TCD/UCD research merger.

He is widely respected internationally, having been a visiting professor in Spain and Poland and having held several high profile positions including President of the European Society of Biomechanics from 2002-2004 and President of the European Alliance of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science in 2007.