Dr Catherine Green
Catherine Green is an Associate Professor in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford and the Monsanto Senior Research Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. She also heads the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility (CBF).
Cath graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge and did her PhD at the Cancer Research UK Clare Hall Laboratories. After postdoctoral work at the Institut Curie in Paris, and at the University of Sussex, she returned to Cambridge to set up a group in the Department of Zoology, studying DNA replication. She moved to Oxford in 2012 to head a research team and core facility at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, with a focus on Chromosome Dynamics. In 2018 she also became head of the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility.
The CBF has, in collaboration with scientists at the Jenner Institute, over the last 15 years made many novel vaccines for clinical trials, covering diseases including malaria, TB, influenza, MERS, Zika, rabies and Ebola (among others). Cath’s team has been an integral part of the University's project to develop a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, in record time. The CBF made the first batch of clinical material that has been used in Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine trials and continues to support these trials.