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  • 2014 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Richard O'Kennedy is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland and has contributed extensively to multiple fields, primarily within the domains of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Engineering. Their work spans subfields including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scholar's research topics include Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, Biosensors and Analytical Detection, Protein Purification and Stability, Viral Infections and Immunology Research, Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, and Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Richard O'Kennedy include:

  • Virus Detection: A Review of the Current and Emerging Molecular and Immunological Methods (2021), published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Antibody Stability: A Key to Performance - Analysis, Influences and Improvement (2020), published in Biochimie
  • Autoantibodies - Enemies, and/or Potential Allies? (2022), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • The Role of Antibody-Based Troponin Detection in Cardiovascular Disease: A Critical Assessment (2021), published in Journal of Immunological Methods
  • Glycosylation in Indolent, Significant and Aggressive Prostate Cancer by Automated High-Throughput N-Glycan Profiling (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

The scholar's frequent coauthors include:

  • Arabelle Cassedy
  • Hui Ma
  • Anne Parle-McDermott
  • Ciarán Ó'Fágáin
  • Caroline Murphy

The researcher has published in various scientific venues with multiple publications in the Journal of Immunological Methods, along with contributions to Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Biochimie, Frontiers in Immunology, and Advances in Clinical Chemistry.

Richard O'Kennedy was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Studies on Coumarins and Coumarin-Related Compounds to Determine their Therapeutic Role in the Treatment of Cancer

    Aoife Lacy;Richard O'Kennedy

  • Advances in biosensors for detection of pathogens in food and water

    Paul Leonard;Stephen Hearty;Joanne Brennan;Lynsey Dunne

  • The Pharmacology, Metabolism, Analysis, and Applications of Coumarin and Coumarin-Related Compounds

    Denise Egan;Richard O'kennedy;Elizabeth Moran;Dermot Cox

  • Mastitis detection: current trends and future perspectives

    Caroline Viguier;Sushrut Arora;Niamh Gilmartin;Katherine Welbeck

  • Tutorial review. Oriented immobilization of antibodies and its applications in immunoassays and immunosensors

    Bin Lu;Malcolm R. Smyth;Richard O'Kennedy

  • Antibody-Based Sensors: Principles, Problems and Potential for Detection of Pathogens and Associated Toxins

    Barry Byrne;Edwina Stack;Niamh Gilmartin;Richard O'Kennedy

  • Antibodies and antibody-derived analytical biosensors.

    Shikha Sharma;Hannah Byrne;Richard J. O'Kennedy

  • Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Low Resource Settings: Present Status and Future Role of Microfluidics.

    Shikha Sharma;Julia Zapatero-Rodríguez;Pedro Estrela;Richard O'Kennedy

  • Antibody production, design and use for biosensor-based applications

    Paul J. Conroy;Stephen Hearty;Paul Leonard;Richard J. O’Kennedy

  • Biosensor developments : application to prostate-specific antigen detection

    Declan A. Healy;Conor J. Hayes;Paul Leonard;Louise McKenna

  • Cardiac biomarkers and the case for point-of-care testing.

    Barry McDonnell;Stephen Hearty;Paul Leonard;Richard O'Kennedy

  • Affinity chromatography as a tool for antibody purification.

    B. Vijayalakshmi Ayyar;Sushrut Arora;Caroline Murphy;Richard O’Kennedy

  • Aberrant PSA glycosylation—a sweet predictor of prostate cancer

    Sarah Gilgunn;Paul J. Conroy;Radka Saldova;Pauline M. Rudd

  • A generic approach for the detection of whole Listeria monocytogenes cells in contaminated samples using surface plasmon resonance.

    Paul Leonard;Stephen Hearty;John Quinn;Richard O’Kennedy

  • Development of surface plasmon resonance-based immunoassay for aflatoxin B1

    Stephen J. Daly;Gary J. Keating;Paul P. Dillon;Bernadette M. Manning

  • Development and application of surface plasmon resonance-based biosensors for the detection of cell-ligand interactions.

    John G. Quinn;Shane O'Neill;Aidan Doyle;Colm McAtamney

  • Effect of antibody immobilization strategies on the analytical performance of a surface plasmon resonance-based immunoassay.

    Sandeep Kumar Vashist;Chandra Kumar Dixit;Brian D. MacCraith;Richard O'Kennedy

  • A tale of two specificities: bispecific antibodies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.

    Hannah Byrne;Paul J. Conroy;James C. Whisstock;Richard J. O’Kennedy

  • Virus Detection: A Review of the Current and Emerging Molecular and Immunological Methods.

    A. Cassedy;A. Parle-McDermott;R. O’Kennedy;R. O’Kennedy;R. O’Kennedy

  • Sialic acids: carbohydrate moieties that influence the biological and physical properties of biopharmaceutical proteins and living cells

    Barry Byrne;Gerard G. Donohoe;Richard O’Kennedy

  • Multisubstrate-compatible ELISA procedures for rapid and high-sensitivity immunoassays

    Chandra Kumar Dixit;Sandeep Kumar Vashist;Sandeep Kumar Vashist;Sandeep Kumar Vashist;Brian D MacCraith;Richard O'Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm R. Smyth
Malcolm R. Smyth Dublin City University
Barry J. Byrne
Barry J. Byrne University of Florida
Brian D. MacCraith
Brian D. MacCraith Dublin City University
Jens Ducrée
Jens Ducrée Dublin City University
Dermot Diamond
Dermot Diamond Dublin City University
Christopher T. Elliott
Christopher T. Elliott Queen's University Belfast
Robert J. Forster
Robert J. Forster Dublin City University
Antonio J. Ricco
Antonio J. Ricco Ames Research Center
C. W. Keevil
C. W. Keevil University of Southampton
Mogens Nicolaisen
Mogens Nicolaisen Aarhus University

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