Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll is a pharmacist and drug delivery scientist with over 35 years' experience in academia. She was appointed as the inaugural Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, in 2003; she has previously served as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin (1995–2003). Caitriona is the inaugural Director of Future Medicines, a UCC research initiative, and coordinator of GENEGUT, a Horizon Europe project (2022–26). Her research interests include non-viral delivery of RNA therapeutics and regulatory science.

She served on the Board of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (2011–20) and the Board of Critical Path Europe (2018–23). She was a ministerial appointee to the Expert Taskforce on Expanding the Role of Pharmacy (2023–24) and sat on the Steering Committee for the National Speciality Quality Improvement Programme at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (2020–24).