A Panel Discussion of Anne McLaren’s contribution and legacy.

The panel, featuring Prof Dame Kay Davies, Prof Niki Trigoni and Dr Hilary Wynne will discuss the challenges, contributions and achievements of women in science.

Dr Anne McLaren was a leading geneticist and stem-cell scientist. She did her undergraduate and DPhil degrees at Oxford after the Second World War. Working with mice in the 1950s she performed the world’s first IVF birth, and went on to play a leading role in designing the regulatory framework for the safe use of IVF in Britain. Anne went on to be the first ever woman Officer of the Royal Society (as Foreign Secretary and Vice President) and was a founder of the Association of Women in Science and Engineering (AWiSE).

More about the Panellists:

Professor Niki Trigoni

Dr Hilary Wynne

Professor Dame Kay Davies FRS

The panel will be chaired by Dr Judith Hillier