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Women in Biosciences An Inspiration www.nottingham.ac.uk/biosciences Prof Anna MacGillivray Macleod (1919-2004) • First Woman president of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling • First female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry in the world • Discovered Gibberellic Acid’s role in the malting process
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Prof AnnaMacGillivray Macleod(1919-2004)
• FirstWomanpresidentoftheInstituteofBrewingandDistilling
• FirstfemaleProfessorofBrewingandBiochemistryintheworld
• DiscoveredGibberellicAcid’sroleinthemaltingprocess
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Prof Rosemary Pangborn (1932-1990)• Pioneerindevelopmentofanalyticalsensoryevaluation• FoundingmemberofAssociationforChemoreception
Sciences• ProfessorofFoodScience,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis• BiennialInternationalPangbornSensoryScience
Symposiumnamedinherhonour
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• Appointedtofirstindependentpositionin1992asaLecturerintheBiochemistryDepartmentattheUniversityofLeicester
• AppointedDirectorofCancerResearchNottinghamandChairofCancerCellBiologyin2004
• AppointedDirectoroftheMRCToxicologyUnitin2010• Willislaboratoryresearchintovariousaspectsofpost-transcriptional
controlofgeneexpressionparticularlythatwhichoccursfollowingtoxicinsulte.g.UVBlightandionisingradiationexposure
Professor Anne Willis
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• PresidentandVice-Chancellor,TheUniversityofManchester• Herownresearchinthefieldofneuroscience,whichisongoing,
hascontributedtowardsmajoradvancesintheunderstandingandtreatmentofbraindamageinstrokeandheadinjury
• FellowoftheRoyalSocietyandanon-executivedirectorofpharmaceuticalcompanyAstraZeneca,co-ChairofthePrimeMinister’sCouncilforScienceandTechnology,aDeputyLieutenantforGreaterManchesterandamemberoftheGreaterManchesterLocalEnterprisePartnership(LEP)Board
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
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• ReceivedherPhDinbiophysicsfromtheUniversityofRochester,USA,in1968,workingonthetransitionfromhosttoviralmetabolismafterbacteriophageinfectionofE.coli
• FoundedtheEvergreenPhageBiologyLaboratoryin1972• EstablishedtheKutter FundtohelpmakeitpossibleforEvergreen’s
youngerfacultyandstudentstocontinueEvergreen'straditionofexcellenceinmicrobiologyresearch
Dr Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter
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• Apioneerinthescientificstudyofnutrition• Oneofthecreatorsofthestate-recommendeddietduringthe
SecondWorldWar• HeadoftheInfantNutritionResearchDivisionattheDunn
NutritionalLaboratoryinCambridgein1966• PresidentoftheNutritionSocietyfrom1977to1980• PresidentoftheNeonatalSocietyfrom1978to1981• PresidentoftheBritishNutritionFoundationfrom1986to1996• BecameaFellowoftheRoyalSocietyin1976
Elsie Widdowson CH CBE FRS (1906-2000)
