PROFESSOR MARILYN MONK

Marilyn (UWC 1956) is a research scientist in the fields of molecular biology, early embryonic development, epigenetics and cancer, and was a former student and tutor at UC. She is Emerita Professor of Molecular Embryology at University College London and previously Honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at Monash University. Her research, beginning in the Bacteriology Department at UniMelb, was concerned with the mechanisms of DNA replication and repair in micro-organisms. She moved to University College London in 1974 with a change of field to early mammalian development and has remained there to this day