Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Professor Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, I do get loads of requests and keep them coming in.
Now, I'm trying to do them as much as possible.
And if stuff comes in that I know stuff about or I feel I can help with, I will certainly cover it.
And this week, Emma Foley has sent in a request to do psoriasis.
And I jumped at this one because I know all about psoriasis and I've done some work.
on psoriasis myself over the years.
And in fact, I have mild psoriasis myself and it's very, very common.
In Ireland, at least 5% of us have some kind of psoriasis.
Now I'm lucky, it's very mild.
It's on my elbows, knees, it comes and goes, you know.
But some people have very severe psoriasis.
That's the severe end of it, I guess.
But it's very common as a condition, so I'm very happy to cover it.
I've been following this as a research area since the mid-80s, remarkably.
It's a classic immune disease.
In this case, the skin gets affected, of course, and my main specialty is immune diseases.
especially what I call autoimmune diseases, where your own immune system attacks your own body.
Auto means self, and your own self gets attacked by the immune system.
And psoriasis is an autoimmune disease.
And we can start off by saying we don't know what causes it.
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