Gillian Bates

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Gillian Bates
Born (1956-05-19) 19 May 1956 (age 67)[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forCo-discovering cause of Huntington's disease
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNeurogenetics
Institutions
ThesisMolecular approaches towards the fine genetic mapping of human chromosomes : with special reference to the cystic fibrosis gene (1987)
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/ion/departments/sobell/Research/GBates

Gillian Patricia Bates (born 19 May 1956)

UCL Institute of Neurology and the co-director of UCL Huntington's Disease Centre.[2][3]

Education

Bates was educated at

Robert Williamson.[1][4]

Research

Bates's research has focused on Huntington's disease. She was one of the group who first cloned the Huntington's disease gene.[5][6] She also created the first mouse model of the disease, the R6/2 mouse, an important step in understanding the pathogenesis of Huntington's.[7]

Prior to joining UCL in 2016, Bates was the head of the Neurogenetics Research Group at King's College London.[8]

Awards and honours

Bates has been elected a fellow of the

European Molecular Biology Organisation (2002).[9][10][11] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007 and to its Council in 2011.[7][12] In 1998, she was awarded the Royal Society Glaxo Wellcome Award jointly with Stephen Davies, for the "discovery of the cause of Huntington's Disease".[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Bates, Prof. Gillian Patricia, (Born 19 May 1956), Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Huntington's Disease Centre, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and UK Dementia Research Institute (Formerly Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders), Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Formerly Institute of Neurology), University College London, since 2016".
  2. ^ "Prof. G. Bates". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  3. ^ Gillian Bates's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. OCLC 940163599
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  5. S2CID 802885
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  6. S2CID 9619253
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  7. ^ a b Royal Society: New Fellows - 2007: Amos - Bruce(accessed 6 January 2009) Archived June 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "King's College London - Gillian Bates". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  9. ^ "Find people in the EMBO Communities".
  10. ^ Academy of Medical Sciences: Fellows: Professor Gillian Bates Archived 2006-10-01 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 6 January 2009)
  11. ^ EMBO: Search for an EMBO member Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 6 January 2009)
  12. ^ "Council of the Royal Society". Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  13. ^ Royal Society: GlaxoSmithKline previous winners 2005 - 1980(accessed 6 January 2009) Archived June 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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