Imelda Lambkin

National Director for FP7

Location: Ireland
Industry: Research

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Imelda Lambkin's Overview

Current

National Director for FP7 at Enterprise Ireland

Past

Senior Policy Advisor at Forfas
Senior Research Scientist-Section Head at Elan

Education

Dublin Institute of Technology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London
University College London, U. of London

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Strategy, policy development and implementation of funding of Research and Development (R&D).

Areas of focus:
- European funding and transnational coordination of research;
- Industry-academic collaboration and enterprise development;
- Biotechnology and life sciences.

Current interests:
- Strategic policy intelligence methodologies;
- Strategic approaches to R&D and coherent research support.

National Director for FP7

Enterprise Ireland

Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; International Trade and Development industry

September 2006 – Present (6 years 10 months)

Leading the National Support Network for FP7, the national effort to optimise Ireland’s participation in the European Framework Programme for Research and Development.

Managing national FP7-related financial and other supports and information tools and events.

Supporting Enterprise Ireland’s participation in FP7 projects.

NCP Coordinator, National Contact Point (NCP) and National Delegate for FP7 Regions of Knowledge, Research Potential, the Joint Research Centre and Euratom in the FP7 programme - providing hands-on support and expert advice to researchers from Ireland applying for EU funding.

Expert evaluator for the European Commission for FP7.

Work package leader in the FP7 ERA-LEARN2 project, developing good practice in transnational research coordination.

Member of the European Advisory Committee for NETWATCH, providing a forum for European ERA-NET and Joint Programming communities of national research funding organisations to work together more effectively.

Senior Policy Advisor

Forfas

Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Public Policy industry

2003 – 2006 (3 years) Dublin

Analysis and advice on R&D policy with particular interests in biotechnology and life sciences.

National Contact Point for the European Commission Framework Programme 6 (FP6) New and Emerging Science and Technology Initiative.

Member of the FP6 VISION ERA-NET (a shared knowledge base for sustainable innovation policies).

Senior Research Scientist-Section Head

Elan

Public Company; 201-500 employees; ELN; Biotechnology industry

1994 – 2002 (8 years) Dublin

Drug delivery research: targeting of drugs to specific sites in the body.

Section Head in Molecular Biology contributing to and managing several international biotechnology joint ventures in drug targeting, ligand identification and combinatorial chemistry.

FP7 Ireland
- 2007 to Present
Team Members: Imelda Lambkin, Samantha Fogarty, Grace Fitzgerald

FP7 Ireland provides a shared work space for all of the major research funding organisations in Ireland, working together to optimise Ireland's use of the European funding programme.
WIRE IV - Week of Innovative Regions in Europe
- January 2013 to Present
Team Members: Imelda Lambkin, Ronan Gingles

Recruited to contribute as part of the International Advisory Group towards the content and planning of the WIRE IV - Week of Innovative Regions in Europe conference to be held in Cork from 5-7 June 2013. This is an official event of the 2013 Irish Presidency of the EU.