Kay Davies -
last update: May 17, 2012
Kay Davies, Ph.D, is the Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford, honorary Director of the MRC Functional Genomics Unit and Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. Her research interests lie in the molecular analysis of human genetic disease, particularly Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and ataxias. She is also Co-director of the Oxford Centre of Gene Function which she co-founded in 1999 as a new multidisciplinary institute bringing together genetics, physiology and populations genetics. She has won numerous awards for her work. She is a founding fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. She has been a Governor of the Wellcome Trust since 2008 and was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to science in 2008.