Jean Beggs

Who is Jean Beggs?

Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS is a distinguished British geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.

She gained a BSc and PhD at Glasgow University and from 1974 to 1977 did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh University. After two years' research at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, she moved to Imperial College, University of London, until 1985 and then back to the Department of Molecular Biology at Edinburgh, being appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1999. Her research interests are in RNA splicing.