Dr Jenny Molloy's Group joins us from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Jenny is an Assistant Research Professor. She started her research group as a Shuttleworth Fellow in 2018 and now develops a range of open source technologies to enable engineering biology for health and sustainability, alongside microbial and enzyme engineering with international and industrial partners– a research area she hopes to expand here in Biochemistry. Jenny has a specific interest in building capacity and collaborations in the global South and is currently 50% FTE at the University in order to lead the Biomanufacturing Group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste, Italy where she applies innovations from her lab to build capacity for biotechnology in ICGEB's 69 member states.
Jenny also co-chairs the University of Cambridge Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre with Prof Laura Machesky and has co-founded a number of non-profit social enterprises and research communities (e.g. Biomakespace, Open Science Hardware Foundation, Reclone.org). She is always happy to talk about open source, tech non-profit and social innovation business models.