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 place	Mount Venus Cemetery, Dublin 53°15′36″N 6°18′16″W
Citizenship	Irish
Education	Charles University
Alma mater	University College Dublin Ireland (PhD)
Known for	Molecular Biology Genetics
Spouse	Saak 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.