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British geneticist and anatomist; educator

United KingdomBorn 1951 · age 75
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Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies is a British geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.

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2019Croonian Medal and Lecture
2015ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award
2013Harveian Oration
2010Joan Mott Prize Lecture
1999Feldberg Foundation Prize
1999honorary doctorate
Fellow of the Royal Society
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

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Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies is a British geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She is director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust, a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function, and a patron and Senior Member of Oxford University Scientific Society. Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In the 1980s, she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying DMD.

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Born 1951 · age 75
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