Women in BioCop - Biographies
Organisation: Queen's University Belfast
Country: UK
Trained as a medical doctor, Dr Situ gained a PhD in Medicine at Queen's University Belfast in 1997. She has worked in areas of drug analysis and has developed and validated a wide range of bioanalytical techniques for rapid detection of antibiotics in foods.
Dr. Situ has actively participated in a number of highly successful EC Framework programme projects including FoodSENSE (FP4) and Feedstuffs-RADIUS (FP5). As a partner with responsibility of developing screening assays for therapeutic substances in various matrices, Dr. Situ played a major role in both projects with regard to research, method development, assay validation and product creation.
Dr. Situ has extensive experience in immunoassays in concepts of using conventional approaches as well as the more advanced approaches such as the state of the art biosensor technology.
Role in BioCop: BioCop Gender Manager and actively involved in WP’s 2 and 8.