Eleanor Molloy is the Professor and Chair of Paediatrics and Child Health in Trinity College Dublin(TCD), Ireland. She is a paediatrician and neonatologist based in Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin & Tallaght and the Coombe Hospital. Her research group is concerned with interdisciplinary child health research and the promotion of Paediatric Translational projects to improve child health and she is co-director of the Trinity research in childhood centre (TRICC) with> 100 principal investigators. She is co-lead for the Health Research Board funded In4Kids (www.In4Kids.ie) the national paediatric clinical trials network aiming to facilitate access to clinical trials for children in Ireland and the national hub for European connect for kids( c4c) network. The Molloy translational research laboratory in TCD evaluates new methods to modify the immune responses in newborn infants with brain injury throughout childhood to find new therapies and improve outcomes. She has supervised more than 20 PhD and MD students and has over 300 peer reviewed publications. Internationally she has served as the Secretary & President of the Irish American Paediatric Society and as the Irish representative on the European Board of Paediatrics: European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), Confederation of European Specialists in Paediatrics (CESP), Board member of the European Society for Paediatric Research and Newborn Brain Society. She was awarded Honorary Fellowship at the American Paediatric Society, a Professorial Fellowship by Trinity College and is the Associate Editor in chief for the journal “Paediatric Research” on behalf of the International Paediatric Research Foundation since 2015. She is interested in collaborative research encompassing consensus definitions of terminology related to neonatal sepsis and measuring core outcomes so that research data can be shared to improve outcomes for children. She is developing programmes in multiorgan care as well as functional motor care from the newborn period to adulthood following neonatal brain injury, sepsis and cerebral palsy in partnership with families and with funding from Science Foundation Ireland and the Health Research Board.