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 OBE
Alma mater	University College Dublin
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	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]