Dermot P. Kelleher FMedSci is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

[2] From 2006 until 2012 he was Head of the School of Medicine and Vice-Provost for Medical Affairs at Trinity College, Dublin.

The research projects within the group focus on the normal functioning of the T-lymphocyte and its role in intestinal inflammation.

Gastrointestinal inflammation is under immunogenetic control and the genetics of coeliac disease are also a focus of the group.

[5][6][7] Specific research topics include: In 2004, he co-founded Opsona Therapeutics with Kingston Mills and Luke O'Neill.