Teresa Lambe
Vaccinologist
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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 | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Finian Martin | |
| Website | https://www.jenner.ac.uk/team/teresa-lambe |
Early life and education
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
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]
Lambe was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2024.[11]
On St. Brigid's Day, February 1, 2026, at the inaugural Spirit of Kildare Awards, hosted by Kildare County Council at Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, Lambe won the Woman in Leadership Award.[12] In 2026, she was made a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[13]