Gerry Quinn graduated from Ulster University in 2004 with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. He is currently a visiting scholar at UUC interested in the isolation of antibiotic producing Streptomyces from Traditional medicine. He has held previous research positions in Ruder Boskovic Institute (Croatia) in phosphoproteomics of Streptomyces rimosus, Swansea University in soil proteomics, University of Central Florida in Staphylococcal immune-evasion and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in parasite immuno-evasion.