Dr. Karen Duffy
karen.duffy@nuigalway.ieEquipment Validation Specialist
Researcher in
Karen has been actively working to bring the GMP Facility to EU GMP standards and to obtain licensed-status from the Irish Medicines Board for manufacture of Investigational Medicinal Product.
2011-present
Equipment Validation Specialist
2005-2011
Facilities Manager, GMP Facility
2004 – 2005
Post Doctoral Scientist Centre for Liver Disease,
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin
Molecular pathogenesis of liver disease caused by Hepatitis C
2003-2004
Product Development Biochemist Cambridge Diagnostics Ireland Ltd.
Development of Immunoassay & medical testing device for pathogen identification in human saliva.
2001-2003
Post Doctoral Scientist National Diagnostics Centre, NUIG Automated diagnostic tests for food-borne pathogens.
2000-2001
Post Doctoral Scientist University College Dublin / Boehringer Ingelhiem, Germany.
Development of a diagnostic test for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in living animals. (U.C.D./major European Pharmaceutical company).
2010 Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) National University Of Ireland, Galway
2002
Diploma in Quality Management (Excellence Ireland /GMIT)
1998 -2000
National University of Ireland, Galway Millennium fund (research scholarship)
1994 - 1997
National University of Ireland, Galway fellowship
1994 - 1997
Enterprise Ireland (formerly Forbairt) fellowship
Research interests:
Cleanroom operations management, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Investigational Medicinal Products, Translational aspects of Regenerative Medicine, Microbiology of Food-borne pathogens, Molecular Diagnostic assay development (PCR, real-time PCR), Immunoassay development, Medical device design/development, bacterial stress-responses, Molecular biology.
