Fiona M. Lyng, BSc PhD
Centre Manager

Brief Biography:

Fiona Lyng holds a BSc (Physics/Chemistry) from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from University College Dublin. She has held postdoctoral research positions at Daresbury Laboratory UK, University College Cork and Dublin Institute of Technology and is currently Head of the DIT Centre for Radiation and Environmental Science where she leads a team of 14 researchers. She has published 100 peer reviewed journal papers, has a h index of 31 and has filed 4 patents. She has supervised 2 MSc/MPhil and 25 PhD students to completion and has successfully won over €3 million in research funding as PI plus over €20 million in research funding as partner. She won the Enterprise Ireland ‘One to Watch’ Award in 2011 and was awarded an Honorary Professorship of DIT in 2012.

Recent Publications

• I. Behl, G. Calado, O. Ibrahim, A. Malkin, S. Flint, H.J. Byrne, F.M. Lyng, Development of methodology for Raman microspectroscopic analysis of oral exfoliated cells, Analytical Methods 2017, 9, 937 – 948
• Medipally DK, Maguire A, Bryant J, Armstrong J, Dunne M, Finn M, Lyng FM, Meade AD. Development of a high throughput (HT) Raman spectroscopy method for rapid screening of liquid blood plasma from prostate cancer patients. Analyst. 2017;142(8):1216-1226. doi: 10.1039/c6an02100j.
• Ainsbury E, Badie C, Barnard S, Manning G, Moquet J, Abend M, Antunes AC, Barrios L, Bassinet C, Beinke C, Bortolin E, Bossin L, Bricknell C, Brzoska K, Buraczewska I, Castaño CH, Čemusová Z, Christiansson M, Cordero SM, Cosler G, Monaca SD, Desangles F, Discher M, Dominguez I, Doucha-Senf S, Eakins J, Fattibene P, Filippi S, Frenzel M, Georgieva D, Gregoire E, Guogyte K, Hadjidekova V, Hadjiiska L, Hristova R, Karakosta M, Kis E, Kriehuber R, Lee J, Lloyd D, Lumniczky K, Lyng F, Macaeva E, Majewski M, Vanda Martins S, McKeever SW, Meade A, Medipally D, Meschini R, M'kacher R, Gil OM, Montero A, Moreno M, Noditi M, Oestreicher U, Oskamp D, Palitti F, Palma V, Pantelias G, Pateux J, Patrono C, Pepe G, Port M, Prieto MJ, Quattrini MC, Quintens R, Ricoul M, Roy L, Sabatier L, Sebastià N, Sholom S, Sommer S, Staynova A, Strunz S, Terzoudi G, Testa A, Trompier F, Valente M, Hoey OV, Veronese I, Wojcik A, Woda C.  Integration of new biological and physical retrospective dosimetry methods into EU emergency response plans - joint RENEB and EURADOS inter-laboratory comparisons. Int J Radiat Biol. 2017 Jan;93(1):99-109. 
• Kulka U, Abend M, Ainsbury E, Badie C, Barquinero JF, Barrios L, Beinke C, Bortolin E, Cucu A, De Amicis A, Domínguez I, Fattibene P, Frøvig AM, Gregoire E, Guogyte K, Hadjidekova V, Jaworska A, Kriehuber R, Lindholm C, Lloyd D, Lumniczky K, Lyng F, Meschini R, Mörtl S, Della Monaca S, Monteiro Gil O, Montoro A, Moquet J, Moreno M, Oestreicher U, Palitti F, Pantelias G, Patrono C, Piqueret-Stephan L, Port M, Prieto MJ, Quintens R, Ricoul M, Romm H, Roy L, Sáfrány G, Sabatier L, Sebastià N, Sommer S, Terzoudi G, Testa A, Thierens H, Turai I, Trompier F, Valente M, Vaz P, Voisin P, Vral A, Woda C, Zafiropoulos D, Wojcik A. RENEB - Running the European Network of biological dosimetry and physical retrospective dosimetry.  Int J Radiat Biol. 2017 Jan;93(1):2-14. 
• Ramos IR, Meade AD, Ibrahim O, Byrne HJ, McMenamin M, McKenna M, Malkin A, Lyng FM, Raman spectroscopy for cytopathology of exfoliated cervical cells, Faraday Discussions 2016, 187, 187-198, DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00197H
• Meade A.D, Howe O., Untereiner V., Sockalingum G.D., Byrne H.J. and Lyng F.M., Vibrational spectroscopy in sensing radiobiological effects: analyses of targeted and non-targeted effects in human keratinocytes Faraday Discussions 2016, 187, 213-234, DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00208G
• Carvalho LFCS, Bonnier F, O´Callaghan K, O´Sullivan J, Flint S, Byrne HJ and Lyng FM, Raman micro spectroscopy for rapid screening or oral squamous cell carcinoma and dysplasia, Exp Mol Pathol 2015 98(3):502-509 doi: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2015.03.027
• Maguire A., Vega-Carrascal I., Bryant J., WhiteL., Howe O., Lyng F. M. and Meade A. D. , Competitive evaluation of data mining algorithms for use in classification of leukocyte subtypes with Raman microspectroscopy Analyst 2015 140(7):2473-81. doi: 10.1039/c4an01887g.
• Maguire, A., Vegacarrascal, I., White, L., Howe, O., Lyng, F.M., Meade, A.D. Analyses of low dose ionising radiation effects ex – vivo in peripheral blood lymphocytes with Raman spectroscopy. Radiat. Res.  2015 183(4):407-416
• Singh, S.P., Ibrahim, O., Byrne, H. J., Mikkonen, J. W., Koistinen, A. P., Kullaa, A. M., Lyng, F. M. (2016), Recent advances in optical diagnosis of oral cancers: Review and future perspectives. Head Neck, 38: E2403–E2411. doi: 10.1002/hed.24293
• Lyng FM, Traynor D, Ramos IRM, Bonnier F, Byrne HJ. Raman spectroscopy for screening and diagnosis of cervical cancer, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2015, 407(27):8279-89. doi: 10.1007/s00216-015-8946-1. 
• RamosIRM, MalkinA, LyngFM, Current advances in the application of Raman spectroscopy for molecular diagnosis of cervical cancer, BioMed Research International 2015 Article ID 561242, doi:10.1155/2015/561242
• Lyng FM, Ramos IRM, Ibrahim O, Byrne HJ. Vibrational Microspectroscopy for Cancer Screening. Applied Sciences. 2015; 5(1):23-35, doi:10.3390/app5010023 

Contact details:

Phone  + 353 1 4027972   

Fax  + 353 1 4027904     

Email  fiona.lyng@dit.ie