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Professor Aisling McMahon is a leading academic in health law and intellectual property law at Maynooth University, where she holds a Professorship in the School of Law and Criminology. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded PatentsInHumans project, focusing on bioethics in patent decision-making. Her roles include membership of the Irish National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials and the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Medical Law Review. She co-founded the UK and Ireland Patent Scholars Network and has held visiting fellowships at Oxford, Yale, and the European University Institute.
Education: PhD in Law (University of Edinburgh), BCL and LLM (University of Galway). Her research bridges health law, intellectual property, and bioethics, addressing issues like gene patentability, access to healthcare technologies, and pandemic governance. Notable projects include the ACCESS initiative on cancer therapies and the PAACT study on CAR-T therapies. Awards include the ERC Starting Grant (€1.5M), Irish Research Council Early Career Researcher of the Year (2023), and Maynooth University Mid-Career Research Award (2024).
Publications span over 30 peer-reviewed articles in top journals like the Medical Law Review and Journal of Medical Ethics, focusing on patent ethics, global health equity, and emerging technologies. Her work influences policy debates on vaccine access, pandemic governance, and the role of patents in health innovation.
Teaching includes modules on medical law, intellectual property, and advanced legal methods. She supervises four PhD students in health law, bioethics, and technology regulation. Collaborations with civil society, like Breakthrough Cancer Research, emphasize practical policy impact.
