Kay Davies
Professor, Academic
1951 –
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Who is Kay Davies?
Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies, DBE, FRS is a British human geneticist.
She is the Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University and a fellow of Hertford College. She is director of the MRC functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 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
- Apr 1, 1951
England - Spouses
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Somerville College, Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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