Jane Osbourn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jane Katharine Osbourn Bingley, West Yorkshire, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education | Bingley Grammar School Queens' College, Cambridge (BSc) John Innes Centre, Norwich (PhD) |
| Known for | Antibody engineering Cambridge Antibody Technology MedImmune AstraZeneca STEM |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biotechnology |
| Thesis | Evidence that nucleocapsid disassembly and a later step in virus replication are inhibited in transgenic tobacco protoplasts expressing TMV coat protein (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | T. Michael A. Wilson |
Jane Osbourn, OBE, is a scientist and former chair of the UK BioIndustry Association.[1]
A Natural Sciences graduate of Queens' College, Cambridge, Osbourn completed several post-graduate qualifications before moving into industry at Cambridge Antibody Technology, that became MedImmune and AstraZeneca.
In the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 2019, Osbourn was awarded the Order of the British Empire medal for services to "Human Monoclonal Antibody Drug Research and Development and Biotechnology".[2]