Tania Nolan, PhD profile page

Dr. Tania Nolan gained a first-class honours degree and was awarded the Excellence in Research Prize from undergraduate studies and then a PhD in genetics from Manchester University, UK. She took up an AstraZeneca Fellowship to study genetic regulation in breast cancer before moving to Stratagene to support the launch of their qPCR programme. Following this, Tania worked with Sigma Aldrich (oligos), leading their technical support team. More recently, Dr. Nolan assisted in the implementation of the UK government ultra-high throughput SARS COV2 testing and led the design and testing programme of assays to identify COVID mutations and new variants. Tania is an internationally recognised molecular biologist with a reputation for expertise in the field of mRNA quantification using RT-qPCR. She was a significant co-author of the specialist textbook The A - Z of Quantitative PCR (ed SA Bustin; lUL Press) along with numerous other book chapters and co-author of the "SPUD" and "3'/5'mRNA integrity" assays. Dr. Nolan is an enthusiastic teacher and before COVID restrictions, was a sought after lecturer and regularly organised qPCR workshops around the world. She has presented several plenary lectures and chaired sessions at major international qPCR meetings. She has an active publication record and regularly contributes to the scientific literature, primarily addressing aspects of quality control of qPCR and RT-qPCR experiments.