Catherine Green

Catherine Green is best known for her work in the fight against Covid-19, working in the Oxford team that developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. As well as her work into vaccines, Catherine is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford as well as holding several senior roles. She is also a bestselling author. As a speaker, she provides an insight into the fight against Covid-19 and the effort required to develop lifesaving vaccines.

She graduated from the University of Cambridge and completed part II of the Natural Science Tripos achieving a BA degree from Cambridge. Catherine also received an Imperial Cancer Research Fund Scholarship for her doctoral research and has a PhD from University College London. She then moved to France to work at the prestigious Curie Institute, studying DNA damage in human cells as a Marie Curie Fellow. Upon returning to the UK, she held a position at the University of Sussex, focusing on the impact of sunlight exposure on DNA.

In 2008 she became a Cancer Research UK Fellow at the University of Cambridge and held a Kaye Research Fellowship at the University. Both these roles allowed her to carry out her research into how cancer develops and allow her to understand the disease better. She has since moved to the University of Oxford where she is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford College. As well as this role she joined the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics where she is head of the Chromosome Dynamics Group, the Chromosome Dynamics Core Facility, and the Flow Cytometry Facility. She also runs the Nuffield Department of Medicine’s Clinical BioManufacturing Facility. Catherine was then a part of the team that developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The team started work on the vaccine in 2020 after the first wave of Covid-19 cases and underwent successful clinical trials later that year. In 2021 more than two billion doses of the vaccine have gone to over 170 countries worldwide to support the fight against the virus. Catherine’s work was rewarded as in 2021 she was awarded an OBE and she also released the award-winning book Vaxxers alongside colleague Sarah Gilbert the same year.

Available to book as a speaker, Catherine would make a great choice for any health care setting or medical professionals with her expertise bound to keep the audience engaged and interested throughout the event.