Catherine Green
Biologist and vaccine manufacturing lead
Catherine Green is a biologist who heads the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Oxford. She helped produce the first supplies of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
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About Catherine Green
Catherine Green studied at the University of Cambridge and earned her PhD at University College London. She joined the University of Oxford in 2012 and heads the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Her team prepares medical products designed by Oxford scientists so they can be made to regulatory standards for clinical trials. She worked with Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and led the facility's work to manufacture the first supplies of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. She received an OBE in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours. Her book Vaxxers tells the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.