| Teresa Lambe | |
| Alma Mater: | University College Dublin |
| Workplaces: | 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.
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]
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]