Professor Jean Beggs FRS
Jean Beggs
Professor Jean Beggs CBE, FRS is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.
Professor Beggs is an eminent international expert in the area of RNA splicing. In the late 1970’s she made a key contribution to the development of yeast molecular genetics and her work was fundamental to the development of recombinant DNA technology in eukaryotic systems.
She is a Fellow both of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society. In 2003 she was awarded the Royal Society Gabor Medal and a year later, the Biochemical Society Novartis Medal. More recently she received a CBE in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to science.