Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture

Introduction

Dorothy Hodgkin solved the sturctures of insulin, Vit B12 and penicillin using xray diffraction. She is the only British woman to win the Nobel Prize for science.
speaker: Prof. Dame Janet Thornton
‘From molecules to medicine’

The advent of personal genome data is changing our understanding of biology. Prof. Janet Thornton will present the thrills and challenges of working in this breath-taking world of molecules and medicine.

Speakers

Professor Dame Janet Thornton DBE, FRS, FMedSci EMBL - EBI
formerly Director EMBL-EBI (2001-2015), United Kingdom

Venue

Somerville College

Somerville College, University of Oxford, Woodstock Rd, Oxford, OX2 6HD, United Kingdom

Organised by

This lecture is organised by Oxford Association for Women in Science and Engineering (AWiSE) in collaboration with Somerville College, Oxford.

It is part of the Oxford International Women's Festival