Catherine Cleary is a Ph.D. student in the Bernal Institute at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Catherine graduated from the University of Limerick in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Biochemistry. Catherine is passionate about dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public and has been an organiser of Pint of Science in the Limerick region for two years.
She was awarded the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship to fund her Ph.D. which focuses on the production of stable dry powder formulations of monoclonal antibodies for pulmonary delivery. This work is supervised by Professor Luis Padrela from the University of Limerick and is in collaboration with Professor Anne Marie Healy from Trinity College Dublin. Catherine is associated with Rinn Pharma and Biopharma and is an associate member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (AMRSC). Catherine is also a committee member on the Institute of Chemistry Young Chemists Network Committee for 2025/2026.
