Jean Beggs
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Jean Duthie Beggs CBE
FRS
(born 16 April 1950) is a distinguished British geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust
Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh
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She gained a BSc and PhD at Glasgow University and from 1974 to 1977 did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh University. After two years research at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge she moved to Imperial College, London University until 1985 and then back to the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh, being appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1999. Her research interests are in RNA splicing.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2003 she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal
" for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".
She received a CBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to science.
CBE
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Royal Society
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(born 16 April 1950) is a distinguished British geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13.9 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research...
Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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She gained a BSc and PhD at Glasgow University and from 1974 to 1977 did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh University. After two years research at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge she moved to Imperial College, London University until 1985 and then back to the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh, being appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1999. Her research interests are in RNA splicing.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2003 she was awarded the Royal Society's Gabor Medal
Gabor Medal
The Gabor Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of London for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines". The medal was created in 1989 to honour the memory of Dennis Gabor, and is awarded biennially...
" for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology".
She received a CBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to science.