Adjunct Professor

Dr Danaher has secured in excess of €17M in funding (directly to Teagasc) on Nationally and Internationally funded projects.  He has been funded on 40 externally funded projects and coordinated 19 of them.   Dr Danaher has supervised 1 MSc and 11 PhD students to completion, mentored 5 PhDs, 7 postdoctoral scientists, 9 researchers, 13 technical staff; he currently supervises 2 PhD students.  Dr Danaher is coordinator of the EU funded BTSF training (Better Training for Safer Food) for the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) on residues of veterinary medicinal products for Third Countries since 2015. In this role he delivered two week training programmes to 80 Food safety Scientists in Ireland and Portugal. He has also delivered training at EU Community Laboratory Workshops and through EU Research Projects such as EUCHINASAFE and ProSafeBeef.   

 

Dr Danaher is a member of several National and International Committees including: 

• Member of the Joint (FAO/WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives 2023 -2027.   
• Irish CODEX Alimentarius Advisory Board. 
• Member of Animal Health Ireland working group on Parasitology.  
• Irish representative on Chemical Contaminants at the IDF (International Dairy Federation). 
• AOAC international veterinary drugs committee.  
• Scientific advisory board of the Irish Medicines Board (previous). 
• Member of the FSAI sub-committee on chemical contaminants (previous). 

 

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS 

Dr Danaher has developed state-of-the-art testing programmes in Ireland for antiparasitic drugs and nitrofurans residues, which were accredited to ISO17025 standards and are widely used by companies on the Island. His research has led to the establishment of new EU Maximum Residue Limits for several flukicide drug residues in milk.  Research carried and methodologies carried out by Teagasc were key to this.  Recently research carried out in his group has led a national reduction in chlorate residues in milk.  The technology developed by his team is now licensed to three different laboratories on the island.  Dr Danaher and his staff received a national award from Knowledge Transfer Ireland for his work on chlorate research in 2022.   

 

Publications: 

DR Danaher has published 118 peer reviewed papers and six book chapters. He has been cited 3039 times in scientific literature and has a h-index of 32(Scopus, 23rd October 2023).