Jane Clarke, Federal Reserve System, FRSC, FMedSci is Professor of Molecular Biophysics, a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Education
Clarke was educated at the University of York where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Biochemistry in 1972. She returned to research, gaining a Master of Science degree in Applied Biology in 1990 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1993 for investigations of Bacterial Ribonuclease (Barnase) from the University of Cambridge supervised by Alan Fersht.
Career
Education and She went on to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) at the University of Cambridge in 1973. Clarke was a science teacher in several secondary schools, and a Head of Science at Northumberland Park School, Tottenham from 1973 to 1986. Clarke was appointed a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in 2001, a Professor of Molecular Biophysics in 2009 and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2010.
Clarke"s research investigates protein folding, in particular: Studies of Structurally Related Proteins Multidomain Proteins: Effects of Sequence on Folding and Misfolding Folding and Assembly: Intrinsically disordered proteins Clarke"s research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Council (Medical Research Council) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Biochemistry, Structure, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Biophysical Journal, Nature, Science, PNAS, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Current Opinion Structural Biology and the Journal of Molecular Biology.