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Barlow in March 2012
Denise P. Barlow
(31 January 1950 ? 21 October 2017) was a British
geneticist
. She was born in
Yorkshire
. She worked in the field of
epigenomics
.
Barlow was an elected member of
European Molecular Biology Organization
(EMBO), an honorary professor of genetics at the
University of Vienna
and received the
Erwin Schrodinger Prize
of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences
in 2014. Her discovery of the first
mammalian
imprinted gene
,
IGF2R
, which codes for the
insulin-like growth factor
was her best known work.
[1]
[2]
Barlow died of
pancreatic cancer
in
Vienna
,
Austria
on 21 October 2017 at the age of 67.
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