Professor Brian Harvey is vice-president of research and professor of the department of physiology at University College Cork.
Education: O'Connells' CBS, Dublin; UCD, BSc physiology, 1979; UCD, PhD physiology, 1982; D.Sc physiology 1992
Career to date: 1985-'92, Responsible de Group Physiologie des Membranes, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique; charge de Recherche, department de biologie Cellulaire et moecularie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
Some memberships: member National Committee of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Health Research Board of Ireland; member of Wellcome Trust Physiology and Pharmacology Grant Panel; Research grant reviewer for NIH, AFLM France, national research councils of Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel and New Zealand.
Current claim to fame: the man who has helped UCC secure €126.97 million from the Higher Education Authority under the PRTLI funding scheme. The €79.49 million award in the latest round, cycle 3, is the highest funding ever secured by a college under PRTLI and will include a €28.7 million postgraduate research library. UCC's success rate in the EU fifth framework is running at twice the EU average.
The college secured two awards under Science Foundation Ireland's first round of funding.
