Professor Niall Moyna

Since 2005 Niall M. Moyna has been an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Human
Performance at Dublin City University, where he is also Head of School and Associate Director of the Vascular Health Research Centre. He holds a PhD degree (1992) from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

After his doctorate he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in immunology between 1992 and 1995 at the Department of Immunopathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, USA. He was then the Director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh and then was a Senior Research Scientist in Nuclear and Preventive Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA. He joined DCU in 2000.

Prof. Moyna leads a research group of 10 research students and he has supervised 5 PhD students and 15 Masters students to completion. He has 36 Peer reviewed publications and another 15 in review. His research, totalling e 5.4M to date, is funded by the National Institute of Health, the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the Health Research Board, the Irish Research Council, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Heart Foundation, and directly from industry.

His research interests include the efficacy of pharmacologic, dietary, physical activity and behavioral interventions in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, the interaction between physical activity, neural, endocrine and immune processes, and the role of perceptual preference in regulating exercise intensity and promoting adherence.