An OBE for Teresa Lambe

Professor Teresa Lambe, who was one of the lead scientists in the development of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, is to be awarded an honorary OBE for services to science and public health in the UK, writes Brian Byrne.

The OBE is listed in the Birthday Honours of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.

Professor Lambe, from Nicholastown in Kilcullen, is Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at the Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research in Oxford. She is a past pupil of Cross and Passion College.

She heads the Lambe Group at the Institute which was established after the Ebolavirus outbreak of 2013-2016, with a focus on developing novel vaccines against a number of pathogens with pandemic potential. These include Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Lassa virus, Nipah virus, Influenza, Ebolavirus and coronaviruses.

The Institute is led by Professor Adrian Hill, from Dublin, who is to receive an honorary knighthood.

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