Jane Sowden

Jane Caroline Sowden is a British biologist who is Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. Her research investigates eye formation and repair by developing a better understanding the genetic pathways that regulate eye development.

Early life and education Sowden was an undergraduate in biochemistry at the University of Oxford. She moved to University College London for her doctorate, where she studied the carbonic anhydrase I gene.

Research and career After her PhD, Sowden moved to the Medical Research Council (MRC) human biochemical genetics unit. She was awarded a career development award in 1996 and spent four years working on retinal development at the Institute of Ophthalmology. at Great Ormond Street Hospital. To explore these pathways, Sowden uses DNA sampling.

Her former doctoral students include Adam Rutherford. Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptor precursors Fox's in development and disease Photoreceptor precursors derived from three-dimensional embryonic stem cell cultures integrate and mature within adult degenerate retina