Jane Clarke (scientist)

Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born	Jane Morgan (1950-09-10) 10 September 1950 (age 66) London
Fields	Biophysics Biochemistry Protein folding
Institutions	University of Cambridge Centre for Protein Engineering Northumberland Park Community School
Alma mater	University of York (BSc) Georgia Institute of Technology (MSc) University of Cambridge (PGCE, PhD)
Thesis	Studies of disulphide mutants of barnase (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Alan Fersht
Notable students	Sarah Batey Robert Best Kate Billings Ernesto Cota Julia Forman Susan Fowler Christian Geierhaas Stephan Hamill Stephanie Hill Mike Hurley Sean Ng Tina Perica Lucy Randles Joseph Rogers Madeleine Ross Ross Rounsevell Kathryn Scott Beth Wensley
Notable awards	FRS (2015) FRSC (2013) FMedSci (2013) US Genomics Award (2010)
Spouse	Christopher Clarke (m. 1973)
Children	one son, one daughter
Website www-clarke.ch.cam.ac.uk

Jane Clarke, FRS, FRSC, FMedSci (née Morgan; born 10 September 1950) is Professor of Molecular Biophysics, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Clarke was educated at the University of York where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Biochemistry in 1972. She went on to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Cambridge in 1973. Clarke was a science teacher in several secondary schools, and a Head of Science at Northumberland Park School, Tottenham from 1973 to 1986.

She returned to research, gaining a Master of Science degree in Applied Biology in 1990 from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in 1993 for investigations of Bacterial Ribonuclease (Barnase) from the University of Cambridge supervised by Alan Fersht.