Dr Denise O’Sullivan

Science Leader, LGC

Denise studied medical microbiology at degree level and then moved on to obtain her PhD at UCL on the molecular evolution of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Following on from this her post-doctoral work has involved studying the molecular epidemiology of TB and looking at developing diagnostic tools for the identification of TB. Currently she works on developing the field of high accuracy measurements in the area of infectious diseases diagnostics at LGC, the UK’s national measurement laboratory for chemical and bio-analytical measurement.