Anita Maguire's Biography

Anita Maguire, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University College Cork

Anita is a graduate of UCC (BSc 1985, PhD 1989). Following postdoctoral research in Namur, Belgium then in Exeter, UK, Anita returned to UCC in 1991 to establish a research team in synthetic organic chemistry and has played a strategic role at the interface with the pharmaceutical industry. She is a Co-PI in the national SFI Centre SSPC. She was elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2014 and appointed RIA Vice President in 2019. She was an Adjunct Professor in the University of Bergen, 2011-16. She was VP Research & Innovation in UCC 2011-21. Throughout her career she has been actively engaged nationally in strategic R&I policy development including as a member of the Advisory Science Council. Since 2015 she is the inaugural Chair of the National Forum on Research Integrity, leading national policy development and implementation in this area.