Jacqueline Whyte

Jackie is a Molecular Cell Biologist with extensive project management and Biomedical Science communication experience. Throughout and following her Ph.D. - which was acquired in the United States at the University of Notre Dame in 2005 - she investigated some of the key regulators of cell growth/death decisions. She was a Post-doctoral researcher at UCD’s Conway Institute and at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, where she worked further on influencers of cell growth/death decisions, alongside treatments used to fight Breast Cancer. She subsequently applied her technical and scientific communication skills within a Biotechnology company called PromoCell, where she worked training and consulting on primary human cell research experiments and on business development. Since 2014, she has worked with scientific expert committees on various biomedical topics; firstly at the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Europe and more recently as a Senior Scientific Officer at Science Europe, as a Senior Scientific Officer co-coordinating their research policy work within the Life and Biomedical Sciences arena. The former Science Europe Scientific Committee for Medical Sciences made a number of recommendations on the topic of ‘How to Transform Big Data into Better Health: Envisioning a Health Big Data Ecosystem for Advancing Biomedical Research and Improving Health Outcomes in Europe’. The Committee also co-signed an Open Letter and made a public statement (with several other organisations), calling for striking the right balance between the protection of individuals' data and medical research.