Biography:Róisín Owens
Roísín Owens | |
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| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Known for | Bioelectronics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University
École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne University of Cambridge |
Róisín Owens is a biochemist and lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in new engineering technology for biological applications. Her research focuses on organic bioelectronics, developing electroactive materials that can be used between physical transducers and soft biological tissues.
Education
Owens is from Glasnevin in Dublin.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences with a focus on Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 1998.[2] She completed her postgraduate studies, "Characterization of the biochemical mechanisms of the BipA ribosomal GTPase in Enteropathogenic E. coli." in at Southampton University in 2002.[3]
Research
She moved to Cornell University to work as a postdoctoral researcher on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the department of Microbiology and Immunology with David Russell.[4] Owens worked at Agave BioSystems in New York between 2005 and 2007.[3] She then joined the lab Moonsoo Jin, developing ICAM-1 of rhinovirus therapeutics.[5]
Owens won a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant.[6][7] The project resulted in a novel biosensor for enteric pathways.[8] In 2009 Owens joined Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, where she was appointed to Professor and Head of Department in 2016.[9] Owens began working in bioelectronics after a discussion with her husband, "I was a biologist specializing in infectious diseases, and he was an expert in physics and materials science ... this was how we came up with this new project together, combining biology and electronics".[10] In 2014 she took a sabbatical at the University of Thessaloniki.[11]
She was the Principal Investigator for the major European Research Council grant, "Exploitation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Use in Biological Ionsensing" in 2010.[12] In 2015 Owens won a €150,000 Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council.[1] In 2016 she won a European Research Council Consolidation grant.[13][14]
In 2017 Owens joined the University of Cambridge.[15] She is Principal Editor for Biomaterials, MRS Communications.[16] She is on advisory board of the Wiley-Blackwell Advanced BioSystems and Journal of Applied Polymer Science.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Irish researcher awarded €150,000 from EU - Engineers Journal" (in en-US). Engineers Journal. 2015-03-10. http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2015/03/10/irish-researcher-awarded-e150000-eu/.
- ↑ vsb1001@cam.ac.uk. "Dr. Róisín M. Owens — Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology" (in en). https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/directory/roisin-owens.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Róisín Owens: CV 2015". http://trasparenza.unica.it/direzioneperlaricercaeilterritorio/files/2016/05/Roisin-Owens-CV-Mar-2015.pdf.
- ↑ "David Russell, PhD | Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine" (in en). https://www2.vet.cornell.edu/research/faculty/david-russell-phd.
- ↑ Moonsoo, Jin,; Roisin, Owens,. "Developing ICAM-1 for rhinovirus therapeutics" (in en). Grantome. http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R21-AI079532-01.
- ↑ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Integration of living cells with organic transistors for the rapid detection of toxins and enteric pathogens". https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/95396_en.html.
- ↑ "Dr. Roisin Meabh Owens - AcademiaNet" (in en). http://www.academia-net.org/profil/dr-roisin-meabh-owens/1135335.
- ↑ "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : A novel biosensor for enteric pathogens". https://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/169869_en.html.
- ↑ "Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) - MINES Saint-Étienne" (in en-US). MINES Saint-Étienne. http://www.mines-stetienne.fr/en/research/scientific-departments/department-of-bioelectronics-bel/.
- ↑ "When biology meets electronics - IMT" (in en-US). IMT. 2016-01-08. https://www.imt.fr/en/when-biology-meets-electronics/.
- ↑ Administrator. "Scientific Visits & Sabbaticals under ROleMak's framework" (in en-gb). http://www.rolemak.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100&Itemid=70.
- ↑ "Major EU Projects" (in fr). ARMINES, acteur de l'innovation par la recherche partenariale. https://www.armines.net/fr/europe/major-eu-projects.
- ↑ "The world is not flat: organic electronic devices for hosting and monitoring cells in 3D". http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:d16w-j8x5fuzl-h1u26e/the-world-is-not-flat-organic-electronic-devices-for-hosting-and-monitoring-cells-in-3d.
- ↑ "Roisin Owens scores a hat-trick with the award of a third ERC grant" (in en-US). I'MTech. 2017-01-13. https://blogrecherche.wp.imt.fr/en/2017/01/13/roisin-owens-award-erc-grant/.
- ↑ vsb1001@cam.ac.uk. "New University Lectureships - Dr David Fairen-Jimenez and Dr Róisín Owens — Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology" (in en). https://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/news-list/new-university-lectureships-dr-david-fairen-jimenez-and-dr-roisin-owens.
- ↑ "Essentials of Getting Your Work Published | 2017 MRS Fall Meeting | Boston". http://www.mrs.org/fall-2017-essentials-publishing.
- ↑ "2017 - CÚRAM" (in en). http://www.curamdevices.ie/curam/news-and-events/events-calendar/events/2017/name-171389-en.html.
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