Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou

Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou
FMedSci
Born1932 (age 91–92)
Burnley, Lancashire, England
EducationUniversity of Cambridge, University of Toronto (PhD)
Known forInterferon type 1 requires the synthesis of effector proteins
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology and genetics
Doctoral advisorLouis Siminovitch

Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou FMedSci (born 1932) is a British molecular biologist and geneticist. She is Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at King's College London specialising in the area of cellular, genetic and proteomic studies on patient breast tumour samples, and works within the Breast Cancer Biology Group.[1] She was the first to identify that the action of interferon type 1 requires the synthesis of effector proteins.

  1. ^ "Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou". Kcl.ac.uk. King's College London. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.