Professor Aurelie Fabre is a Consultant Histopathologist at St Vincent University Hospital Dublin and Full Clinical Professor in Pathology at UCD School of Medicine with a special interest in Thoracic Pathology.
She is the Lead in Pulmonary Pathology at St Vincent University Hospital and runs the weekly lung cancer and monthly interstitial lung diseases and rare/cystic lung diseases multidisciplinary meetings.
She provides expertise in interstitial lung diseases nationally and is the pathologist for the Interstitial Lung Disease Subgroup of the Irish Thoracic Society. She is involved with the European Respirator Society (ERS) as past Secretary and Chair of the Molecular Pathology and Functional Genomics Assembly 3.1, and member of various task forces and editor of the ERS Monograph on COVID19. She also provides national expertise in adult sudden cardiac death, working closely with the Irish Heart Foundation and family screening cardiology clinics. She set up a national biobank in sudden cardiac death where tissue and blood sampled from SADS victims are centrally stored for molecular studies. At the research level, she provides expertise in translational tissue and cell morphology, image analysis, animal models and immunohistochemistry.
She is the founder and director of the Research Immunohistochemistry Laboratory at UCD, assisting researchers in antibody selection and optimization, automated standardized and multiplex immunohistochemical staining of human and animal tissues as well as expert analysis (digitally and semi-quantitative) of these stains. Current collaborations include local and international research groups on lung fibrosis and rare lung diseases (LAM, DIPNECH).