Cillian de Gascun is an Irish consultant virologist who has served as Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD since 2013.
[1][2] De Gascun graduated with a BA MB BCh BAO from Trinity College, Dublin in 1998.
[3] While completing senior registrar training in clinical microbiology and virology at the National Virus Reference Laboratory, he completed an MD at University College Dublin and was made a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.
[4][5] De Gascun spent two years as a consultant virologist with Surrey Pathology Services in the United Kingdom[6] before he was appointed Laboratory Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD in 2013.
[5][7] From 5 February 2020 to February 2022, de Gascun chaired the Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group, a subgroup of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), that monitored national research and developments in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, and provided expert advice to NPHET and the Health Service Executive (HSE) in relation the pandemic in Ireland.