Background
She was born as Kay Elizabeth Partridge and educated at the Gig Mill School, Stourbridge County High School for Girls, Somerville College, University of Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford.
She was born as Kay Elizabeth Partridge and educated at the Gig Mill School, Stourbridge County High School for Girls, Somerville College, University of Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford.
Bachelor in Chemistry, Oxford University, England, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1976. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1976.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1990.
She is a professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. She is director of the Medical Research Council functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Doctor of Medical Dentistry).
In the 1980s, she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying Doctor of Medical Dentistry. " research group has an international reputation for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Doctor of Medical Dentistry).
In the 1980s, she developed a test which allowed for the screening of foetuses whose mothers have a high risk of carrying Doctor of Medical Dentistry. Doctor of Medical Dentistry occurs when the dystrophin protein fails to express in muscle cells due to a mutation in the gene which codes for the protein. In 1989 discovered that the utrophin protein has similar properties to dystrophin and has since shown in mouse models that up regulation of the former protein in muscle cells can compensate for the absence of latter. is currently collaborating with European Research Council fellow Doctor Peter Oliver investigating neurodegenerative and movement disorders. is director of the Medical Research Council functional genetics unit, a governor of the Wellcome Trust and, with Frances Ashcroft and Peter Donnelly is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.
She is an Executive Editor of the journal Human Molecular Genetics. became a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. Already a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), she was advanced to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
She is an Honorary Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford.
She gave the inaugural Rose Lecture at Kingston University in 2012 and delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 2013.
Fellow Royal College Pathologists, Royal Society London, Royal Society, Academy Medical Sciences. Member Royal College Physicians (honorary), Clinical Genetics Society, Bio-chemical Society.
Married Stephen Graham Davies, August 4, 1973 (divorced 2001). Children: Nicholas, Oliver.