Bridget Carragher

Bridget Carragher serves as the co-director of the Simons Electron Microscopy Center at the New York Structural Biology Center and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics department. She co-directed the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy (an NIH funded national biotechnology research resource known as NRAMM) for 20 years and is the co-director of of the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training, the National Center for In-situ Tomographic Ultramicroscopy, and the Simons Machine Learning Center.

She co-founded NanoImaging Services, Inc. in 2007 to provide cryoEM and other microscopy services to the biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. She serves as Chief Technology Officer of NanoImaging Services. 

Her positions in academia and industry are guided by a deep interest in the development of streamlined and automated methods for electron microscopy aimed at improving both the quality of EM data as well as the accessibility of these techniques to the wider biological community.