!!!Valerie O'Donnell \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='ODonnell_Valerie_11.05.20_MH_CU_12_small.jpg' alt='Valerie ODonnell' height='220'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ *May 2017 - 2020 Director, Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University *Jan 2015 Co-Director, Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University *Jan 2014 - Oct 2014 Dean of Research, School of Medicine, Cardiff University *May 2012 - Dec 2013 Dean of Research (Acting/Deputy), School of Medicine, Cardiff University *Aug 2008 - ongoing Professor, Dept of Medical Biochemistry, Cardiff University, UK *July 2008 - present Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo *Aug 2002 - Aug 2008 Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer (University Award), then Reader, Dept of Medical Biochemistry, Cardiff University, UK *Jan 1999 - July 2002 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Depts of Pharmacology & Medical Biochemistry, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK *Jun 1996 - Dec 1998 Parker B. Francis Research Fellow (Dir: Professor B.A. Freeman), Department of Anesthesiology, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA *Jan 1994 - Jun 1996 European Union Biotech Fellow (Marie Curie scheme) (Dir: Professor A. Azzi) Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland. \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2023 Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to biochemical research *2020 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences *2019 Journal of Lipid Research Lectureship Award *Feb 2014 - 2019 European Research Council Advanced Investigator *Aug 2016 Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Society *April 2015 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, *June 2013 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, *Since 2008 Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo *March 2008 Marie Curie Excellence Award (EU), Brussels *2002 - 2007 Wellcome Trust University Award, Cardiff University *2004 Iron Bolt Award, Gordon Research Conference on Oxygen Radicals *1999 - 2002 Wellcome Trust RCD Fellowship, Cardiff University *1997 - 1999 Parker B Francis Pulmonary Fellowship, University of Alabama at Birmingham *1995 - 1996 European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Berne, Switzerland \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/O'Donnell_Valerie/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/O'Donnell_Valerie/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/O'Donnell_Valerie/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/O'Donnell_Valerie/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit vodonnell}] [{ALLOW upload vodonnell}] [{ALLOW comment All}]