Patricia Simpson
Patricia "Pat" Simpson FRS is a distinguished British developmental biologist. She is Professor of Comparative Embryology in the University of Cambridge,[1] and a Fellow of Newnham College.[2]
She graduated from Universite de Paris VI, Pierre and Marie Curie University.[3] She is distinguished for her work on development in insects. Her first major discovery was that pattern formation and growth are regulated by the same mechanism. By a study of genetic mosaics she demonstrated that cells develop into particular structures by means of local interactions with their neighbours.
She has made major contributions to the understanding of the process of lateral inhibition, whereby initially equivalent cells interact between themselves and subsequently adopt different fates. This process involves a conserved cellular receptor and is equally important in mammals; the work can be related to studies on human development and disease.[4]
Awards
- 2000 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1993 Silver medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifque, France
References
External links
- "Patricia Simpson", Google Scholar
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