Valerie O'Leary

Professor
Valerie O'Leary
Born
Valerie Bríd O'Leary

May 24, 1970
Ireland
Died(2024-03-27)27 March 2024
Maidstone Hospital, Kent
Burial placeMount Venus Cemetery, Dublin
53°15′36″N 6°18′16″W / 53.26000°N 6.30444°W / 53.26000; -6.30444
CitizenshipIrish
EducationCharles University
Alma materUniversity College Dublin Ireland (PhD)
Known forMolecular Biology Genetics
SpouseSaak V. Ovsepian

Valerie Brid O'Leary (died 27 March 2024) was an Irish scientist and researcher with a diverse background in medical genetics, radiation biology, and neurotherapeutics. She was an associate professor at the Department of Medical Genetics (Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University).[1]

She has about 80 publications that have been cited over 3400 times, giving her an h-index of 29.[2]

She died in 2024 at Maidstone Hospital, Kent, after a short illness.[3]

Education

O'Leary earned a Ph.D. in Botany from Trinity College Dublin in 1996. In 2002, she earned a diploma in DNA sequencing (Genetics) from the National Institute of Mental Health. She also earned a diploma on Genome Sequence and Variation (Genetics) from the University of Cambridge in 2003.[4]

Career

After completing her Ph.D., she joined the Department of Pathobiology at Cleveland Clinic in the United States as a research associate and later joined the Lerner Research Institute, where she held the position of senior researcher in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Her research during this period focused on the molecular basis of various diseases and potential therapeutic interventions. In 2007, O'Leary joined Columbia University's Molecular Virology Division as a research associate. Her work significantly contributed to the understanding of viral replication mechanisms and the development of antiviral strategies.[citation needed] O'Leary became a research associate at Dublin City University's International Centre for Neurotherapeutics. In 2013, she joined the Institute of Radiation Biology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München as a researcher.[5] In 2019, she joined Charles University as an associate professor at the Department of Medical Genetics (Third Faculty of Medicine).[6]

References

  1. ^ "Valerie O'Leary". People. Third Faculty of Medicine. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ "Valerie Bríd O'Leary Ph.D." Google Scholar. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  3. ^ "Death Notice of Valerie O'Leary (Walkinstown, Dublin) | rip.ie". rip.ie. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  4. ^ "Valerie O'Leary". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  5. ^ o'Leary, Valerie Bríd; Dolly, Oliver James; Höschl, Cyril; Černa, Marie; Ovsepian, Saak Victor (2020). "Unpacking Pandora from Its Box: Deciphering the Molecular Basis of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22 (1): 386. doi:10.3390/ijms22010386. PMC 7795774. PMID 33396557.
  6. ^ "Valerie O'Leary". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-04-11.