Kay Davies

Dame Kay Davies
Davies in 2008
Born
Kay Elizabeth Partridge

(1951-04-01) 1 April 1951 (age 73)[5]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forDuchenne muscular dystrophy research
Spouse
(m. 1973⁠–⁠2000)
[5]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisStructure and function of Chromatin from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum (1976)
Doctoral students
Websitewww.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/kay-davies

Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies (née Partridge; born 1 April 1951)[5] is a British geneticist. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She is director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust,[6] a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function, and a patron and Senior Member of Oxford University Scientific Society.[7] Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In the 1980s, she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying DMD.[2][8]

  1. ^ http://www.ashg.org/pdf/2015_Allan.pdf [dead link]
  2. ^ a b Kay Davies publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Miguel-Aliaga, Irene (2000). Spinal muscular atrophy : of flies, worms and men. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 59391590. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.343478.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Vernes, Sonja (2007). Investigation of the role of FOXP transcription factors in neurodevelopment. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 317354555. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.497468.
  5. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference WW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Kay Davies ORCID 0000-0001-8807-8520
  7. ^ "Committee". 22 September 2020.
  8. ^ Kay Davies publications from Europe PubMed Central