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Gillian Bates
Born (1956-05-19) 19 May 1956 (age 68)[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)[1] FMedSci FRS is a British biologist. She is distinguished for her research into the molecular basis of Huntington's disease and in 1998 was awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Prize as a co-discoverer of the cause of this disease. As of 2016, she is Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Institute of Neurology and the co-director of UCL Huntington's Disease Centre.[2][3]

Education

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Bates was educated at Kenilworth Grammar School and the University of Sheffield where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979.[1] She completed her postgraduate study at Birkbeck College, London where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1984 followed by St Mary's Hospital Medical School where she was awarded a PhD in 1987 for genetic mapping of the cystic fibrosis gene, working in the lab of Robert Williamson.[1][4]

Research

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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

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Bates has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999) and a member 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] In August 2024, Bates was recipient of the Royal Society's prestigious Ferrier Medal, which recognised her work in understanding the molecular basis of Huntington's disease.[14]

References

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  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. ^ Bates, Gillian Patricia (1987). Molecular approaches towards the fine genetic mapping of human chromosomes : with special reference to the cystic fibrosis gene (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 940163599.
  5. ^ Macdonald, M (1993). "A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes" (PDF). Cell. 72 (6): 971–983. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(93)90585-E. hdl:2027.42/30901. PMID 8458085. S2CID 802885.
  6. ^ Mangiarini, Laura; Sathasivam, Kirupa; Seller, Mary; Cozens, Barbara; Harper, Alex; Hetherington, Colin; Lawton, Martin; Trottier, Yvon; Lehrach, Hans; Davies, Stephen W; Bates, Gillian P (1996). "Exon 1 of the HD Gene with an Expanded CAG Repeat Is Sufficient to Cause a Progressive Neurological Phenotype in Transgenic Mice". Cell. 87 (3): 493–506. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81369-0. PMID 8898202. S2CID 9619253.
  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. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. 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
  14. ^ "Ferrier Medal and Lecture | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
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