Kay Davies
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Kay Davies...College, University of Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford. Davies' 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... In this article: Kay Elizabeth Davies, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, University of Oxford, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Wellcome Trust, Oxford Centre, and Edinburgh University |
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Times Online | October 20, 2009
'Spectacular results' hailed for muscular dystrophy drug
...a less severe disease with a much better prognosis. Dame Kay Davies, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Oxford, who led the new research, said the results were highly encouraging. "These findings, should they prove to be repeatable...
In this article: Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, University of Oxford, Morpholino, Peptide, Paralysis, and AVI Biopharma
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Science Blog - | October 20, 2009
Exon-skipping drug prevents muscle wasting, maintains muscle function in dystrophin deficient mice
"This research demonstrates remarkable prevention of dystrophic pathology and retained near normal muscle function in severely affected dKO mice following treatment with a PPMO," said Dame Kay Davies, Ph. D, Director of the...
In this article: AVI Biopharma, University of Oxford, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Oxford, Morpholino, Malaria, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, E mail, and Derivative
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News at Nature - Articles published Today | February 04, 2009
Research funding: Closing arguments
...mice. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kay Davies at the University of Oxford, UK, she was working on a new mouse model of muscular dystrophy, one that improved on the mdx mouse that was widely used at the time. The mdx model...
In this article: National Institutes of Health, Muscular dystrophy, Ohio State University, CASK, Heart failure, and E-mail
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Medical News Today | October 21, 2008
Parliamentary Minister To Speak At Sixth Annual Action Duchenne Conference In London
...the field of treating and developing new therapies for the disease. Dame Professor Kay Davies from University of Oxford will be delivering a key note speech on Saturday 1stNov. Professor Kate Bushby of Newcastle University Centre for Life (and...
In this article: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, University of Oxford, London, UK, Muscular dystrophy, and University College of London
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BBC News | May 25, 2009
Floppy baby breakthrough
Professor Dame Kay Davies, of the University of Oxford, helped create the mice used in the study. She said the findings were promising. "What we can't guarantee is if we can find a chemical to increase levels of heart actin enough.
In this article: Floppy baby, University of Oxford, Acta1, and UK
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Dr. Richard P. Lifton Receives 7th Annual Wiley Prize In Biomedical Sciences
...Institute of Technology, Dr. Joan A. Steitz, a molecular biologist at Yale University, and Professor Kay E. Davies, a human geneticist at the University of Oxford, U.K. Among the many distinguished past recipients of The Wiley Prize...
In this article: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Rockefeller University, Hypertension, Yale University School of Medicine, Gunter Blobel, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies, DBE, FRS, is a British human geneticist born on April 1, 1951. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College. She is director of the MRC 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.
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.
DMD 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 Professor Davies 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.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. She is an Executive Editor of the journal Human Molecular Genetics.
She was born Kay Elizabeth Partridge in 1951 and educated at Gig Mill School (where she was in the same class as David Trotman), Stourbridge County High School for Girls, Somerville College, Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford.
Already a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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