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Employment (7)

BIOENZ Technologies Ltd: Waterford, Waterford, IE

2019 to present | CEO and Founder
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Lee Coffey

Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

2013-09 to present | Lecturer (Science )
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Lee Coffey

Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

2011 to 2013 | Lab & Project Manager (Science)
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Lee Coffey

Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

2005 to 2013 | Part-Time Lecturer (Science)
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Waterford Institute of Technology : Waterford, IE

2007 to 2011 (Science)
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Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland: Waterford, Waterford, IE

2001 to 2001 | QC Pharmaceutical Analyst (QC Inhalations, Norton)
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Lee Coffey

Dawn Pork & Bacon: Waterford, Waterford, IE

2000 to 2000 | QC Microbiology Analyst (QC)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2007 to 2007 | Certificate in Perl Programming
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Lee Coffey

Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

2002 to 2007 | • Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology (IRCSET scholarship)
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Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

1998 to 2002 | • B.Sc. (Hons) Applied Biology with Quality Management (1.1)
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Professional activities (8)

Saint Declans Community College: Waterford, Waterford, IE

2019 to present | Board of Management, Community Representative
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Lee Coffey

Munster Technological University: Cork, IE

2020-01 to 2024-06 | External Examiner (Biological Sciences)
Service
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Lee Coffey

Walton Institute, SETU: Waterford, Waterford, IE

2016 to 2022 | Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
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Lee Coffey

National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Dublin, IE

2021 | • National Forum Teaching Hero 2021 Award Recipient
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Lee Coffey

National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Dublin, IE

2020 | Teaching Hero 2020 Award Recipient
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Lee Coffey

Technology Ireland Awards: Dublin, IE

2019 | Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year
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Lee Coffey

Microbiology Society: London, London, GB

2002 to 2019
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Waterford Institute of Technology: Waterford, IE

2016 | • WIT Postgraduate Supervision Excellence Award Recipient
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Funding (23)

The use of synthetic biology to develop microbial cell populations as biological sensors that monitor and report on gut microbiome changes and animal health

2025-09 to present | Award
Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin, IE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Lee Coffey

Enterprise Ireland Pre-Seed Start Fund

2024-02 to 2025-02 | Grant
Enterprise Ireland (Dublin, IE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Lee Coffey

PhD studentship in Molecular Biology (Experimental Molecular Computing and Communication

2021-01 to present | Grant
Science Foundation Ireland (Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

CRISPR Cas9 genome editing training workshop

2020 to present | Grant
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Lee Coffey

Pre-validation and expansion of COVID-19 rRT-PCR diagnostic testing

2020 to 2020 | Grant
Science Foundation Ireland (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Lee Coffey

Development of an enhanced gene therapy for Canavan disease using directed evolution'

2019 to present | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Lee Coffey

Capital RDF WIT funding

2019 to 2019 | Grant
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Investigating the role of glatiramer in modulating immune effector cells in a model of choroidal neovascularization (CNV)

2018 to present | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Molecular Communications Research

2018 to present | Award
Huawei Technologies (Waterford, Waterford, CN)
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Lee Coffey

The Discovery and Enhancement of Agri-Feed Enzymes using Genome Editing

2018 to present | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Novel Nanomaterials for Ocular Drug Delivery - OcuDel

2017 to present | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel organocatalysts towards the synthesis of biologically active oxindoles

2016 to 2021 | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Development of an Enzyme Discovery Platform kit towards Biocatalysis

2016 to 2020 | Grant
Enterprise Ireland (Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Enantioselective biocatalytic synthesis of ß-amino acids and amines

2015 to 2020 | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Characterisation and improvement of microbial enzymes using directed evolution towards bio-pharmaceutical applications

2014 to present | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Development of recombinant enzymes towards the production of pharmaceutical intermediates using biotransformations

2013 to 2021 | Award
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Waterford, Waterford, BR)
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Lee Coffey

The identification and application of genes and enzymes as biocatalysts towards the production of pharmaceutical intermediates

2013 to 2018 | Award
Waterford IT (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

High throughput platform to generate enzyme banks for industrial applications

2013 to 2013 | Grant
Enterprise Ireland (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Production of enantiopure pharmaceutical intermediates using biocatalysis

2012 to 2012 | Grant
Enterprise Ireland (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Cloning, expression and characterisation of isonitrile hydratase from Arthrobacter sp. expressed in E.coli

2010 to 2010 | Award
Society for General Microbiology (Waterford, Waterford, GB)
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Lee Coffey

Purification and characterisation of nitrilase enzymes from Burkholderia sp. expressed in E.coli

2010 to 2010 | Award
Royal Irish Academy (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Screening and characterisation of nitrilase genes from environmental microbes

2008 to 2010 | Award
Society for General Microbiology (Waterford, Waterford, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Molecular analysis of genes involved in nitrile metabolism in Microbacterium sp. AJ115, Rhodococcus erythropolis AJ270, AJ300 and ITCBP

2002 to 2007 | Award
Irish Research Council (dublin, IE)
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Lee Coffey

Works (29)

Immune System, Inflammation and Autoantigens in Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Pathological Significance and Therapeutic Importance

Life
2023-11 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Sreeraj K Manikandan; Ann Logan; Marc Cerrada-Gimenez; Laurence Fitzhenry; Lee Coffey; Kaja, Simon; Sweta Rani
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Biological Solutions Discovery Platform - patent pending

Europe, Canada, USA
2022 | Patent
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Lee Coffey

Dilution/Liquid Handling Device - patent pending

Europe, USA and Canada
2022 | Patent
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Lee Coffey

Using deep learning to detect digitally encoded DNA trigger for Trojan malware in Bio-Cyber attacks

Scientific Reports
2022-06-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Lee Coffey

Modulated Molecular Channel Coding Scheme for Multi-Bacterial Transmitters

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
2021-11-15 | Journal article
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Lee Coffey

Chitosan-Coated PLGA Nanoparticles Encapsulating Triamcinolone Acetonide as a Potential Candidate for Sustained Ocular Drug Delivery

Pharmaceutics
2021-09-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1999-4923
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Lee Coffey

Microfluidic-based Bacterial Molecular Computing on a Chip

2021-04-15 | Preprint
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Lee Coffey

Hydrogel-based Bio-nanomachine Transmitters for Bacterial Molecular Communications

Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Nanoscale Computing, Communication, and Applications
2020-11-16 | Conference paper
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Lee Coffey

Process Optimisation Studies and Aminonitrile Substrate Evaluation of Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, A Nitrile Hydrolyzing Bacterium

ChemistryOpen
2020-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2191-1363
Part of ISSN: 2191-1363
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Lee Coffey

DNA Molecular Storage System: Transferring Digitally Encoded Information through Bacterial Nanonetworks

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
2019 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2168-6750
Part of ISSN: 2376-4562
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Lee Coffey

Genetic similarity of biological samples to counter bio-hacking of DNA-sequencing functionality

Scientific Reports
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
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Lee Coffey

Trojan Bio-Hacking of DNA-Sequencing Pipeline

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
2019-09-25 | Journal article
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Lee Coffey

Novel β ‐amino Amide Organocatalysts for the Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Relevant Oxindoles

ChemistrySelect
2019-07-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2365-6549
Part of ISSN: 2365-6549
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Lee Coffey

The use of clade‐specific PCR assays to identify novel nitrilase genes from environmental isolates

MicrobiologyOpen
2019-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-8827
Part of ISSN: 2045-8827
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Lee Coffey

Applying functional metagenomics to search for novel nitrile-hydrolyzing enzymes using environmental samples

Biomaterials Tissue Technology
2017-08 | Journal article
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Lee Coffey

Real-time PCR detection of aldoxime dehydratase genes in nitrile-degrading microorganisms

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
2017-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0003-6072
Part of ISSN: 1572-9699
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Lee Coffey

Substrate Evaluation of Rhodococcus erythropolis SET1, a Nitrile Hydrolysing Bacterium, Demonstrating Dual Activity Strongly Dependent on Nitrile Sub-Structure

European Journal of Organic Chemistry
2015-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1434-193X
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Lee Coffey

A high throughput screening strategy for the assessment of nitrile-hydrolyzing activity towards the production of enantiopure β-hydroxy acids

Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic
2013-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1381-1177
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Lee Coffey

Development of novel real‐time Taqman ®PCR assays for the species and sex identification of otter ( L utra lutra ) and their application to noninvasive genetic monitoring

Molecular Ecology Resources
2013-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1755-098X
Part of ISSN: 1755-0998
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Lee Coffey

A Nitrile-Metabolising Enzyme and a Process for Producing an Acid using SS-17

2012 | Patent
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Lee Coffey

A Nitrile-Metabolising Enzyme and a Process for Producing an Acid using SS-24

2012 | Patent
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Lee Coffey

A Nitrile-Metabolising Enzyme and a Process for Producing an Acid using SS-4

2012 | Patent
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Lee Coffey

TaqMan assays for species identification of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Conservation Genetics Resources
2012-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1877-7252
Part of ISSN: 1877-7260
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Lee Coffey

An assessment of pathogen removal during composting of the separated solid fraction of pig manure

Bioresource Technology
2011-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0960-8524
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Lee Coffey

Real-time PCR detection of Fe-type nitrile hydratase genes from environmental isolates suggests horizontal gene transfer between multiple genera

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
2010-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0003-6072
Part of ISSN: 1572-9699
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Lee Coffey

The characterization of Listeria spp. isolated from food products and the food-processing environment

Letters in Applied Microbiology
2010-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0266-8254
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Lee Coffey

Isolation of identical nitrilase genes from multiple bacterial strains and real-time PCR detection of the genes from soils provides evidence of horizontal gene transfer

Archives of Microbiology
2009-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0302-8933
Part of ISSN: 1432-072X
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Lee Coffey

Efficient expression in E. coli of an enantioselective nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus erythropolis

Biotechnology Letters
2008-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0141-5492
Part of ISSN: 1573-6776
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Lee Coffey

Characterisation of the nitrile hydratase gene clusters of Rhodococcus erythropolis strains AJ270 and AJ300 and Microbacterium sp. AJ115 indicates horizontal gene transfer and reveals an insertion of IS1166

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
2005-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0003-6072
Part of ISSN: 1572-9699
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Lee Coffey