Jean Beggs#
| Membership Number: | 2073 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://beggs.bio.ed.ac.uk/content/home |
Present and Previous Positions
- Royal Society Darwin Trust Research Professor and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh
- Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology, Edinburgh University
- Fellow at Royal Society University Research
- Lecturer at Imperial College, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanism of pre-messenger RNA splicing and links to transcription
- Biochemistry
- Molecular genetics
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2003 Royal Society's Gabor Medal "for her contributions to the isolation and manipulation of recombinant DNA molecules in a eukaryotic organism, adding a new dimension to molecular and cellular biology"
- 2006 CBE for her services to science
