Jane Clarke

Early life and education Clarke was born Jane Morgan in London on 10 September 1950. She was educated at the University of York where she graduated with a first-class honours degree in biochemistry in 1972. She went on to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Cambridge in 1973.

Research and career Clarke was appointed a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in 2001, a Professor of Molecular Biophysics in 2009 and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 2010. in particular: Studies of structurally related proteins Multidomain proteins: effects of sequence on folding and misfolding Folding and assembly: intrinsically disordered proteins

Clarke's research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

She has been the author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers and book chapters Clarke was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2015, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2013. Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:

In 2021 she spoke about her career in the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific.