Kay Davies
British geneticist and anatomist; educator · United Kingdom · On the map · Born 1951 · age 75
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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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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Linda PartridgeBoth received Joan Mott Prize Lecture
Vikram PatelBoth received Wellcome Trust Principal Research FellowshipFaith OsierBoth received Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship
Eleanor A. MaguireBoth received Joan Mott Prize Lecture
Dorothy BishopBoth received Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship
Elizabeth RobertsonBoth received Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship