Penny Handford

Tutor in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Penny Handford has been Tutor in Biochemistry since October 1998; before that she was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Her main research interests are the molecular basis of human disease, specifically genetic diseases such as Marfan syndrome, retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and CADASIL that may be caused by mutations which affect the calcium binding epidermal growth factor-like domain.

Her work is currently funded by CRUK and The Wellcome Trust.

She was awarded the personal title of Professor in the 2004 Recognition of Distinction exercise at the University of Oxford.

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