Róisín Owens

Róisín Owens is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.[2][3] Her research investigates new engineering technology for biological applications with a focus on organic bioelectronics, developing electroactive materials that can be used between physical transducers and soft biological tissues.[1][4][5]

Roísín Owens
Born
Roísín Meabh Owens
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin (BSc)
University of Southampton (PhD)
AwardsSuffrage Science award (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical devices
Barrier tissue
Infectious diseases
Biosensing
conducting polymers[1]
InstitutionsCornell University
École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne
University of Cambridge
ThesisThe BipA global regulator interacts with ribosomes (2002)
Websitewww.ceb.cam.ac.uk/directory/roisin-owens

Education and early life

Owens is from Glasnevin in Dublin.[6] She earned a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences with a focus on Biochemistry at Trinity College, Dublin in 1998.[7] She completed her PhD at the University of Southampton with a thesis on the The BipA global regulator interacts with ribosomes.[8][9]

Career and research

She moved to Cornell University to work as a postdoctoral researcher on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the department of Microbiology and Immunology with David Russell.[10] Owens worked at Agave BioSystems in New York between 2005 and 2007.[9] She then joined the lab Moonsoo Jin, developing ICAM-1 of rhinovirus therapeutics.[11]

Owens won a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant.[12][13] The project resulted in a novel biosensor for enteric pathways.[14] In 2009 Owens joined Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, where she was appointed to Professor and Head of Department in 2016.[15] Owens began working in bioelectronics after a discussion with her husband, "I was a biologist specializing in infectious diseases, and he was an expert in physics and materials science ... this was how we came up with this new project together, combining biology and electronics".[16] In 2014 she took a sabbatical at the University of Thessaloniki.[17]

She was the Principal Investigator (PI) for a major European Research Council grant, Exploitation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Use in Biological Ionsensing in 2010.[18] In 2015 Owens won a €150,000 proof of concept grant from the European Research Council.[6] In 2016 she won a European Research Council Consolidation grant.[19][20]

In 2017 Owens joined the University of Cambridge.[2][21] She is Principal Editor for Biomaterials, MRS Communications.[22] She serves on the advisory board of the Wiley-Blackwell Advanced BioSystems and Journal of Applied Polymer Science.[23]

Awards and honours

Owens won the Suffrage Science award in 2019, nominated by Rylie Green.[24]

References
  1. Róisín Owens publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. [email protected] (2017-07-04). "New University Lectureships - Dr David Fairen-Jimenez and Dr Róisín Owens — Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology". ceb.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  3. Róisín Owens publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. Rivnay, Jonathan; Owens, Róisín M.; Malliaras, George G. (2013). "The Rise of Organic Bioelectronics". Chemistry of Materials. 26 (1): 679–685. doi:10.1021/cm4022003. ISSN 0897-4756.
  5. Khodagholy, Dion; Rivnay, Jonathan; Sessolo, Michele; Gurfinkel, Moshe; Leleux, Pierre; Jimison, Leslie H.; Stavrinidou, Eleni; Herve, Thierry; Sanaur, Sébastien; Owens, Róisín M.; Malliaras, George G. (2013). "High transconductance organic electrochemical transistors". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 2133. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2133K. doi:10.1038/ncomms3133. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 3717497. PMID 23851620.
  6. "Irish researcher awarded €150,000 from EU - Engineers Journal". Engineers Journal. 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  7. [email protected] (2017-08-18). "Dr. Róisín M. Owens — Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology". ceb.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  8. Owens, Roisin Meabh (2002). The BipA global regulator interacts with ribosomes (PhD thesis). University of Southampton. OCLC 59475065. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.394052.
  9. "Róisín Owens: CV 2015" (PDF). University of Caligari. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  10. "David Russell, PhD | Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine". vet.cornell.edu. 2017-03-22. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  11. Moonsoo, Jin; Roisin, Owens. "Developing ICAM-1 for rhinovirus therapeutics". Grantome.
  12. "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : Integration of living cells with organic transistors for the rapid detection of toxins and enteric pathogens". cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  13. "Dr. Roisin Meabh Owens - AcademiaNet". academia-net.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  14. "European Commission : CORDIS : Projects and Results : A novel biosensor for enteric pathogens". cordis.europa.eu. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  15. "Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) - MINES Saint-Étienne". MINES Saint-Étienne. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  16. "When biology meets electronics - IMT". IMT. 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  17. Administrator. "Scientific Visits & Sabbaticals under ROleMak's framework". rolemak.eu. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  18. "Major EU Projects". ARMINES, acteur de l'innovation par la recherche partenariale (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  19. "The world is not flat: organic electronic devices for hosting and monitoring cells in 3D". events.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  20. "Roisin Owens scores a hat-trick with the award of a third ERC grant". I'MTech. 2017-01-13. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  21. "Dr Róisín Owens – Newnham College". newn.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  22. "Essentials of Getting Your Work Published | 2017 MRS Fall Meeting | Boston". mrs.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  23. "2017 - CÚRAM". curamdevices.ie. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  24. ""World leader and supportive mentor" Dr Róisín Owens receives 2019 Science Suffrage Award – Newnham College". www.newn.cam.ac.uk.
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