Valerie O'Donnell#
| Membership Number: | 5322 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/126613-odonnell-valerie |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4089-8460 |
Present and Previous Positions
- May 2017 - 2020 Director, Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University
- Jan 2015 Co-Director, Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University
- Jan 2014 - Oct 2014 Dean of Research, School of Medicine, Cardiff University
- May 2012 - Dec 2013 Dean of Research (Acting/Deputy), School of Medicine, Cardiff University
- Aug 2008 - ongoing Professor, Dept of Medical Biochemistry, Cardiff University, UK
- July 2008 - present Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo
- Aug 2002 - Aug 2008 Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer (University Award), then Reader, Dept of Medical Biochemistry, Cardiff University, UK
- Jan 1999 - July 2002 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Depts of Pharmacology & Medical Biochemistry, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
- Jun 1996 - Dec 1998 Parker B. Francis Research Fellow (Dir: Professor B.A. Freeman), Department of Anesthesiology, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Jan 1994 - Jun 1996 European Union Biotech Fellow (Marie Curie scheme) (Dir: Professor A. Azzi) Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Fields of Scholarship
- Inflammation biology
- Lipid biochemistry
- Mass spectrometry
- Blood clotting
- Free radical biology
- Platelets
- Cardiovascular disease
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to biochemical research
- 2020 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2019 Journal of Lipid Research Lectureship Award
- Feb 2014 - 2019 European Research Council Advanced Investigator
- Aug 2016 Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Society
- April 2015 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,
- June 2013 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology,
- Since 2008 Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo
- March 2008 Marie Curie Excellence Award (EU), Brussels
- 2002 - 2007 Wellcome Trust University Award, Cardiff University
- 2004 Iron Bolt Award, Gordon Research Conference on Oxygen Radicals
- 1999 - 2002 Wellcome Trust RCD Fellowship, Cardiff University
- 1997 - 1999 Parker B Francis Pulmonary Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 1995 - 1996 European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Berne, Switzerland
