The Hindu : British scientist to visit City

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Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003

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British scientist to visit City

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore Feb. 11. The 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA structure will see Bangalore playing host to an eminent scientist from the U.K., Peter Goodfellow.

He is best known for cloning the gene that determines whether a baby is male, and further work on mammalian sex determination. He has also worked in new genome-mapping technology.

Dr. Goodfellow, who is now Senior Vice-President and Head of Discovery Research at GlaxoSmithKline, will be here on February 14 and 15. He will meet senior scientists at the Indian Institute of Science and the Centre for Human Genetics. He will also give a public lecture on "Genes, genomes, and drugs" at the National Centre for Biological Sciences. His India tour will also cover Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Mumbai, where he will meet scientists in the Indian biotechnology and pharma industry, and academics.

Dr. Goodfellow was formerly Head of the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University. The London-based Financial Times has listed him as one of the 10 most influential people in British science.

James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the `double helix' structure of the DNA molecule at the Cavendish Laboratory in the U.K. in 1953. Some information about this discovery can be seen in an interactive section at the recently opened Biotechnology Gallery at the Visvesvaraya Technological Museum here.

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