Clodagh O'Shea

Clodagh C. O'Shea is a professor of molecular and cell biology and current Wicklow Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and a scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is also an adjunct professor at UCSD and the Scientific Founder of IconOVir Bio.

Education Born and raised in Cork, Ireland, O'Shea has a BS in biochemistry and microbiology from University College Cork, Ireland. She obtained a PhD from Imperial College London, revealing key signals that regulate the development of our immune systems. After her graduate studies, she was selected for a Raleigh International expedition to Namibia where she worked on environmental, conservation and development projects. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, United States.

Selected publications

Awards 2007 Emerald Foundation Scholar 2008 ACGT Young Investigator Award for Cancer Gene Therapy 2008 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigators Award 2009 Sontag Distinguished Scientist Award 2011 Science/NSF International Science & Visualization Challenge, People's Choice 2016 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar 2018 Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group's Allen Distinguished Investigator