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Prof AnnaMacGillivray Macleod(1919-2004)

• FirstWomanpresidentoftheInstituteofBrewingandDistilling

• FirstfemaleProfessorofBrewingandBiochemistryintheworld

• DiscoveredGibberellicAcid’sroleinthemaltingprocess

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Prof Rosemary Pangborn (1932-1990)• Pioneerindevelopmentofanalyticalsensoryevaluation• FoundingmemberofAssociationforChemoreception

Sciences• ProfessorofFoodScience,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis• BiennialInternationalPangbornSensoryScience

Symposiumnamedinherhonour

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• Appointedtofirstindependentpositionin1992asaLecturerintheBiochemistryDepartmentattheUniversityofLeicester

• AppointedDirectorofCancerResearchNottinghamandChairofCancerCellBiologyin2004

• AppointedDirectoroftheMRCToxicologyUnitin2010• Willislaboratoryresearchintovariousaspectsofpost-transcriptional

controlofgeneexpressionparticularlythatwhichoccursfollowingtoxicinsulte.g.UVBlightandionisingradiationexposure

Professor Anne Willis

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• PresidentandVice-Chancellor,TheUniversityofManchester• Herownresearchinthefieldofneuroscience,whichisongoing,

hascontributedtowardsmajoradvancesintheunderstandingandtreatmentofbraindamageinstrokeandheadinjury

• FellowoftheRoyalSocietyandanon-executivedirectorofpharmaceuticalcompanyAstraZeneca,co-ChairofthePrimeMinister’sCouncilforScienceandTechnology,aDeputyLieutenantforGreaterManchesterandamemberoftheGreaterManchesterLocalEnterprisePartnership(LEP)Board

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

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• ReceivedherPhDinbiophysicsfromtheUniversityofRochester,USA,in1968,workingonthetransitionfromhosttoviralmetabolismafterbacteriophageinfectionofE.coli

• FoundedtheEvergreenPhageBiologyLaboratoryin1972• EstablishedtheKutter FundtohelpmakeitpossibleforEvergreen’s

youngerfacultyandstudentstocontinueEvergreen'straditionofexcellenceinmicrobiologyresearch

Dr Elizabeth (Betty) Kutter

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• Apioneerinthescientificstudyofnutrition• Oneofthecreatorsofthestate-recommendeddietduringthe

SecondWorldWar• HeadoftheInfantNutritionResearchDivisionattheDunn

NutritionalLaboratoryinCambridgein1966• PresidentoftheNutritionSocietyfrom1977to1980• PresidentoftheNeonatalSocietyfrom1978to1981• PresidentoftheBritishNutritionFoundationfrom1986to1996• BecameaFellowoftheRoyalSocietyin1976

Elsie Widdowson CH CBE FRS (1906-2000)