Teresa Lambe
Teresa Lambe | |
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Alma mater | University College Dublin |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Finian Martin |
Website | https://www.jenner.ac.uk/team/teresa-lambe |
Teresa "Tess" Lambe OBE is an Irish scientist working at Oxford University's Oxford Vaccine Group. She is one of the co-developers of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine against the new coronavirus causing COVID-19.
Early life and education
[edit]Teresa Lambe is from Nicholastown, in Kilcullen, County Kildare, where she attended Cross and Passion College.[1] Lambe studied pharmacology and molecular genetics at University College Dublin, where she completed her PhD in 2002 with Prof Finian Martin.[2]
Career
[edit]Lambe is a scientist working at Oxford University's Jenner Institute.[3] She is one of the co-developers of the Oxford vaccine against the new coronavirus causing COVID-19.[4][5][6][7]
Previously, she worked on vaccines for Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, ebola, Lassa fever, MERS, and Nipah virus.[1]
In 2021, she was awarded the UCD Alumni Award in Science 2021.[8]
In 2021, she was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to Science and Public Health.[9]
In 2022, she was announced as one of the recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2022 in the category of Science, Technology & Innovation. [10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Kildare scientist plays key role in new Covid 19 vaccine". Kildare Nationalist. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ O'Connell, Claire. "The intense marathon of making a vaccine against Covid-19". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Teresa Lambe".
- ^ Woolston, Chris (9 November 2020). "'I've never worked harder': the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine". Nature. 587 (7833): 322. Bibcode:2020Natur.587..322W. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-03139-x. PMID 33168971.
- ^ O'Connell, Claire; Clarke, Vivienne. "Irish designer of Oxford vaccine: 'I've never worked so hard in my life'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Dr Jenny Harries: The inspirational women I've worked alongside in the fight against Covid-19". inews.co.uk. 11 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Shute, Joe (30 December 2020). "'Keep calm and develop vaccines': Meet the scientists behind the Oxford jab". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Prof Teresa Lambe UCD Alumni Award in Science - UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science". www.ucd.ie. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "Honorary Awards to Foreign Nationals in 2021". Gov.UK. 2021.
- ^ "Minister Coveney announces 2022 Presidential Distinguished Service Award recipients". gov.ie. 11 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
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[edit]- Living people
- Alumni of University College Dublin
- Academics of the University of Oxford
- 21st-century Irish women scientists
- People from Kilcullen
- Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Honorary Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Scientists from County Kildare
- Irish geneticists
- Irish pharmacologists
- Women geneticists
- 21st-century Irish biologists