Valerie O’Donnell, Professor of Biochemistry at Cardiff University, is internationally distinguished for her discovery of inflammatory bioactive lipids generated by circulating blood cells. Using biophysical methods developed in her laboratory, she discovered over 150 unique lipids, and demonstrated that many are essential for blood clotting and vascular inflammation. |Resulting from her discoveries, an anti- inflammatory lipid was patented, and is currently in two Phase IIb trials. She is an established international expert in the rapidly expanding area of lipidomics, heading the Wellcome Trust Bioresource LIPID MAPS. She is Director of the Division of Infection and Immunity, and Co-Director of the Systems Immunity Research Institute, which she established. |