Frank Waldron-Lynch OC’89

Frank Waldron-Lynch is a globally recognised Physician-Scientist with over two decades of experience in leading research and clinical development in autoimmunity, transplant immunology, and rare diseases across academia, biotech, and pharmaceutical sectors. Frank is a distinguished Consultant Clinician with multi-layer expertise in Immunology, Translational Medicine, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. A strategic leader and independent thinker with a proven track record in hiring talent, forming, developing, and mentoring high performing teams that consistently deliver transformative therapies for patients.

Most recently, Frank held the position of VP, Cell Therapy, and Immunology Research at Vertex, in Boston, USA. Prior to this Frank held the position of Translational Medicine Expert and Global Inflammasome Lead at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basal, Switzerland, and spent several years on faculty at University of Cambridge, where he was a Senior Clinical Trials Fellow in the Division of Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics, as well as being an Honorary Consultant in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Dr. Waldron-Lynch, BSc, MA, MB, BChir (Cantab), PhD, FRCP (Lond), FRCPI, trained in academic and clinical medicine at Yale University, University of Cambridge, University College Cork, and University of Galway. He has published numerous scholarly articles in his research areas of interest and holds fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Frank (OC 89) is married to Maeve and has two sons who both currently attend Clongowes Wood College. Both his father Derrick (OC 54) and brother Tom (OC 87) also attended Clongowes. In his spare time, he enjoys snowboarding, sailing, and gardening.

Frank left Clongowes in 1989