Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, (born 24 March 1938) is an Australian and British scientist.

Education

Ogilvie was born in 1938 at

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, Australia, to John Mylne and Margaret Beryl (née McRae) Ogilvie. During her primary school years, she had a single teacher, and three other students in her class. She was educated at the

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(

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), finishing in 1955. She completed a BRurSC (Hons I) degree in Rural Science at the

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, graduating with the university medal in 1960. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend

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, where she earned a PhD for her work on ''

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''.

Career

Ogilvie joined the

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department at the Medical Research Council's

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(NIMR) in 1963 and spent her academic career there studying

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nematodes The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broa ...

(intestinal worms) until 1981 when she was appointed to the staff of the Wellcome Trust, becoming its Director in 1991]. She remained as Director until she retired in 1998. The key event during her Directorship was the establishment of the Sanger Institute at Hinxton near Cambridge, now the Wellcome Genome Campus. At the end of her time at the Wellcome Trust, in 1998, she persuaded the government to join forces with the Wellcome Trust in funding the Joint Infrastructure Fund to improve university facilities for research. She served on the main Board of Lloyds Bank, then Lloyds TSB bank. 1995–2000, and on the main Board of Zeneca, then AstraZeneca 1997–2006. She has many honorary degrees from universities in several countries and was the High Steward of the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2009. Ogilvie was the first Chairperson of the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Board. Since her retirement, she has played a significant role in public engagement with science and science in education. As a trustee of the Science Museum and chair of the

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science teaching trust, she served as chair of COPUS and

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. She has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sense about Science since its establishment and is a Visiting Professor at

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Awards and honours

In 1994, Ogilvie won the Kilgerran Prize of the Foundation for Science and Technology. In the 1996 New Year Honours List, Ogilvie was made a Dame Commander of the

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(DBE) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: In 2007, she was appointed a Companion of the

Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Go ...

(AC), Australia's highest civilian honour, with the citation: "For service to science in the field of biomedical research, particularly related to veterinary and medical parasitology, and through support for research funding to improve global health." She is a member of the Advisory Council for the

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. In 2008 she was elected to the

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. She is an Honorary Fellow of

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. She is an honorary member of the

British Society for Immunology The British Society for Immunology, or BSI, is a UK-based organisation of British immunologists but accepts members from all countries. It was founded in November 1956 by John H. Humphrey, Robin Coombs, Bob White, and Avrion Mitchison and is on ...

. In 2016 the Wellcome Sanger Institute named their new building after Bridget Ogilvie, dedicated for next generation sequencing operations.

References

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External links

MMV.org (Medicine for Malaria Venture)
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