Catherine Lund is by training a registered neonatal nurse. She entered the clinical research arena as a research nurse, followed by her formal clinical research training at Quintiles. She left Quintiles to pursue a career in contracting. Through collaborations, she then established OnQ Research, a full service South African based CRO in 2006. Sello Seahloli joined her a partner in 2008.
Catherine Lund has served on the SACRA ( South African Clinical Research Association) Exco for a period of three years. She additionally headed up the writing department for this organisation. She was the Vice Chair for the South African Chapter of ACRP in 2003.
She is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. Her additional interests are running, amateur economics and politics.