Helen Sang

Biography

Professor Sang received a degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Genetics, from the University of Cambridge. She followed this with a PhD, also at Cambridge, studying the mechanism of genetic recombination with Dr. H.L.K. Whitehouse. Professor Sang was then awarded a SERC-NATO fellowship to investigate the mechanisms of mismatch repair in E. coli at Harvard University with Prof. M. Meselson. She returned to the UK on an MRC Training Fellowship and joined David Finnegan’s lab at the University of Edinburgh’s department of Molecular Biology, where she was involved in identifying the transposon responsible for IR hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila. Professor Sang was then appointed as a Principal Investigator at the AFRC Poultry Research Centre, now the Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh. Professor Helen Sang was appointed Personal Chair in Vertebrate Molecular Development in 2009. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

Research Interest

Current Research Interests Applications of transgenesis in the chick, particularly in study of the development of the chick embryo and resistance to disease. Research Interests Our interests are in the development of transgenic technologies for genetic modification of the chicken and the applications of these technologies.