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Biosketch

Research Career: Lecturer (2007-present);Contract Lecturer(2006-2007); Postdoctoral Fellow(2005-2006); Research Engineer (2002-2005); Ph.D. researcher (1999-2002).


                                                                                   
                                                                                               

Research Interests
  • Active modelling of cell biomechanics;
  • Biomechanics of stents and stent coatings;
  • Analysis and design of orthopaedic implants
  • Multiscale cell and tissue mechanics

  • Active Cell Modelling

  • Biomechanics of hard and soft tissue
  • Cardiovascular and orthopaedic implant and device design

  • Linear and non-linear computational method development and application in biomedical and materials engineering                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Key Publications

1.       McGarry JP (2009) Characterisation of Cell Mechanical Properties by Computational Modelling of Parallel Plate Compression. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 37: 2317?2325.

2.       McGarry JP, Fu J, Yang MT, Chen CS, McMeeking RM, Evans AG, Deshpande VS (2009) Simulation of the contractile response of cells on an array of micro-posts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 367: 3477?3488.

3.       McGarry JP, McHugh PE (2008) Modelling in-vitro chondrocyte detachment. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 56: 1554?1565.

4.       Hopkins, C.G., McHugh, P.E., McGarry, J.P., Computational investigation of the delamination of polymer coatings during stent deployment. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, In Press, available on-line, DOI : 10.1007/s10439-010-9972-y, 2010.

5.       McGarry JP, Murphy BP, McHugh PE (2005) Computational mechanics modelling of cell-substrate contact during cyclic substrate deformation. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 53: 2597-2637.

6.       Ryan G, McGarry JP, Pandit A, Apatsidis D (2009) Analysis of the mechanical behaviour of a porous titanium scaffold with a repeating unit-cell sub-structure. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials. 90: 894?906.

Research Collaborators
  • University of Cambridge
  • UC Davis
  • UC Santa Barbara
  • University College Dublin; UL.
Honours & Awards
Awards & Honours:
  • Organiser and chair of special symposium in mechanotransduction at the ASME summer bioengineering conference, USA, 2010.
  • Invited Keynote presentation at the International Conference of Plasticity 2009

  • Awarded highest grade in history of ICHEC for peer reviewed  Class B project

  • Awarded ECCOMAS diploma for best computational thesis in Ireland in 2004
  • IRCSET Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2005