Claire Morgan

Virologist

Claire started her career at Cefas in 1999 as an undergrad student studying gonad development in the Dover sole (working in endocrinology, histology and the aquatic facility) and helping develop a radio-immuno assay to measure stress levels in rainbow trout. She returned to Cefas in 2002 to join the research virology team. Since then her work has involved many in vitro and in vivo studies (in the aquatic facility) studying virus characteristics, host-pathogen interactions, and host immune responses to increase understanding and options for prevention and control of important aquatic diseases.

She has been study director for projects including: biosecurity studies, batch potency testing of vaccines (to GMP standards), extraneous agent testing (for commercial vaccine production customers), treatment efficacy studies (to GLP standards) and numerous research studies to understand emerging and important diseases. She has also provided international training in diagnostics (dissection, sampling and molecular analysis (MAFF, Oman)).

She is the virology team leader and technical area manager and training to be the deputy diagnostic virology manager (to ISO 17025 standards - UKAS accreditation). She is also the deputy biosecurity officer, a member of AWERB, GXP trained, a trainer in ASPA procedures and a mental health well-being and bullying and harassment advisor.

Email: claire.morgan@cefas.gov.uk