Elected: 2021
Discipline: Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor Liz Patton
Professor, Personal Chair of Chemical Genetics, MRC Programme Leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit
Dr. E. Elizabeth Patton is currently a Group Leader at the MRC Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Edinburgh, with a specific interest in melanoma. Dr. Patton received a BSc (Honours) degree from King’s College at Dalhousie University and a PhD from the University of Toronto, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and The University of Oxford. Her laboratory currently uses zebrafish and mice as model systems to understand the genetics of melanocyte and melanoma development. Working Group: Industry Working Group