1. Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies is a British geneticist.
16 Facts About Kay Davies
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Kay Davies is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
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Kay Davies is director of the Medical Research Council 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.
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Kay Davies was educated at the Gig Mill School, Stourbridge County High School for Girls, Somerville College, Oxford, and Wolfson College, Oxford.
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Kay Davies was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 for research on the structure and function of chromatin from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
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In 1989 Kay Davies discovered that the utrophin protein has similar properties to dystrophin and has since shown in mouse models that up regulation of the former protein in muscle cells can compensate for the absence of latter.
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Kay Davies is currently collaborating with European Research Council fellow Dr Peter Oliver investigating neurodegenerative and movement disorders.
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Kay Davies is director of the Medical Research Council functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and, with Frances Ashcroft and Peter Donnelly is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.
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Kay Davies was an Executive Editor of the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
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Kay Davies has published more than 400 papers and won numerous awards for her work.
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Kay Davies was the recipient of the Women in to Science and Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
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Kay Davies was a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003.
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Kay Davies is an Honorary Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford.
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Kay Davies gave the inaugural Rose Lecture at Kingston University in 2012 and delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 2013.
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Kay Davies was appointed a Patron of The SMA Trust in September 2016.
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Kay Davies was awarded the Croonian Lecture by the Royal Society in 2018 for "her achievements in developing a prenatal test for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and for her work characterising the binding partners of the protein dystrophin".