Shirley Hodgson

Shirley Victoria Hodgson FRCP FRSB (née Penrose, born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist.[1] She is Professor of Cancer Genetics at St George's, University of London.[2]

She is daughter of Lionel Penrose and his first wife Margaret Leathes, and the granddaughter of the physiologist John Beresford Leathes. She has three older brothers, Oliver, Sir Roger and Jonathan Penrose. She married Humphrey Hodgson in 1971.[3]

She is the author of "A Practical Guide to Human Cancer Genetics", "Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives" (1998), "Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer" and many academic papers.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

References

  1. ↑ "Prof Shirley Hodgson Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Shirley Hodgson Profile". Debretts.com. 1945-02-22. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Biography — St George's, University of London". Sgul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  3. ↑ ‘HODGSON, Prof. Humphrey Julian Francis’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 30 March 2013
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