Pauline Rudd

Research and career Rudd joined the glycobiology institute at the University of Oxford in 1985. At the time, it was difficult for women scientists to secure jobs as academic personnel, and Rudd joined as a glass washer. She learned how to work with glycoproteins and large sugars and eventually completed a doctorate on glycoforms at the Open University in 1995. She moved to University College Dublin in 2006, where was made head of the Dublin-Oxford glycobiology laboratory research group. She opened the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), where she developed new processes for protein glycosylation in an attempt to characterise recombinant protein drugs.

Awards and honours Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM) Awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Science and Religion 2010 Agilent Thought Leader Award 2012 Waters Corporation Center of Innovation Program Honors 2014 University of Gothenburg Sahlgrenska institute Honorary Doctorate 2016 The Analytical Scientist Power List

Selected publications

Personal life Rudd serves as an associate of the Anglican Church at the Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, Oxfordshire. She took a fifteen-year career break to raise her four children.