title: Valerie Bríd O'Leary
text: # Valerie Bríd O'Leary
  
  Valerie Bríd O'Leary is an Irish scientist and researcher with a diverse background in medical genetics, radiation biology, and neurotherapeutics. She is an associate professor at the Department of Medical Genetics (Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University).
  
  She has about 80 publications that have been cited over 3400 times, giving her an h-index of 29.
  
  ## Early life and career
  
  O'Leary earned a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the Department of Pathobiology at Cleveland Clinic in the United States as a research associate and later joined the Lerner Research Institute, where she held the position of senior researcher in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. Her research during this period focused on the molecular basis of various diseases and potential therapeutic interventions. In 2007, O'Leary joined Columbia University's Molecular Virology Division as a research associate. Her work significantly contributed to the understanding of viral replication mechanisms and the development of antiviral strategies. O'Leary became a research associate at Dublin City University's International Centre for Neurotherapeutics. In 2013, she joined the Institute of Radiation Biology at the Helmholtz Zentrum München as a researcher.
  
  