Sue Povey

Professor Susan Povey FMedSci (24 April 1942 – 11 January 2019), was a British geneticist.

Life She was born in Leeds, the daughter of Jack Povey, a physics teacher at St Michael's College, and his wife Margaret Robertson, a paediatrician who was the first female graduate of Leeds Medical School. She was educated at Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls, and then entered Girton College, Cambridge.

Povey graduated with a degree from the University of Cambridge in 1967, after reading Genetics in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. She subsequently completed her medical training at University College London (UCL) before clinical training appointments in Liverpool and Huddersfield. She then completed a diploma in tropical medicine, and spent a year in Algeria working for Save the Children.

From 1970 to 2000 she was at the Medical Research Council's Human Biochemical Genetics Unit at the Department of Human Genetics and Biometry, UCL. becoming Emeritus on retirement.