Dame

Bridget Ogilvie

AC DBE FRS
Ogilvie in 1987
Born
Bridget Margaret Ogilvie

(1938-03-24) 24 March 1938 (age 86)[2]
Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsFRS
DBE
PhD[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
National Institute for Medical Research
Wellcome Trust
Zeneca Group plc
Imperial College London
ThesisNippostrongylus braziliensis: a study of the life cycle and immunological response of the host (1964)
Websitewww.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/people/dame-bridget-ogilvie

Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, AC DBE FRS[3] (born 24 March 1938)[2] is an Australian and British scientist.[2][4][5][6]

Education

Ogilvie was born in 1938 at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, to John Mylne and Margaret Beryl (née McRae) Ogilvie. During her primary school years, she had a single teacher, and three other students in her class.[7]

She was educated at the New England Girls' School (Armidale, New South Wales), finishing in 1955. She completed a BRurSC (Hons I) degree in Rural Science at the University of New England, graduating with the university medal in 1960. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend Girton College, Cambridge, where she earned a PhD for her work on Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.[2][1][8][9][10]

Career

Ogilvie joined the Parasitology department at the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in 1963 and spent her academic career there studying immune responses to nematodes (intestinal worms) until 1981 when she was appointed to the staff of the Wellcome Trust, becoming its Director in 1991]. She remained as Director until she retired in 1998. The key event during her Directorship was the establishment of the Sanger Institute at Hinxton near Cambridge, now the Wellcome Genome Campus.

At the end of her time at the Wellcome Trust, in 1998, she persuaded the government to join forces with the Wellcome Trust in funding the Joint Infrastructure Fund to improve university facilities for research.

She served on the main Board of Lloyds Bank, then Lloyds TSB bank. 1995–2000, and on the main Board of Zeneca, then AstraZeneca 1997–2006. She has many honorary degrees from universities in several countries and was the High Steward of the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2009.[2][11]

Ogilvie was the first Chairperson of the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) Board. Since her retirement, she has played a significant role in public engagement with science and science in education. As a trustee of the Science Museum and chair of the AstraZeneca science teaching trust, she served as chair of COPUS and Techniquest. She has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sense about Science since its establishment and is a Visiting Professor at University College London.[2][11]

Awards and honours

In 1994, Ogilvie won the Kilgerran Prize of the Foundation for Science and Technology. In the 1996 New Year Honours List, Ogilvie was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003.[3]

In 2007, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civilian honour, with the citation: "For service to science in the field of biomedical research, particularly related to veterinary and medical parasitology, and through support for research funding to improve global health."[12]

She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[11] In 2008 she was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.[13] She is an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.[14] In 2016 the Wellcome Sanger Institute named their new sequencing operations building after her.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Ogilvie, Bridget (1964). Nippostrongylus braziliensis (Travassos, 1914; Travassos and Darriba, 1929): a study of the life cycle and immunological response of the host (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Ogilvie, (Dame) Bridget (Margaret), (Dr Bridget Ogilvie)". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Anon (2015). "Dame Bridget Ogilvie AC DBE FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

  4. ^ Bridget Ogilvie's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Bridget Ogilvie publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  6. ^ Ogilvie, B. M.; McClymont, G. L.; Shorland, F. B. (1961). "Effect of Duodenal Administration of Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids on Composition of Ruminant Depot Fat". Nature. 190 (4777): 725–6. Bibcode:1961Natur.190..725O. doi:10.1038/190725a0. PMID 13730440. S2CID 4222792.
  7. ^ "Dame Bridget Ogilvie, parasitologist and immunologist - Australian Academy of Science". science.org.au. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  8. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (17 November 2006). "OGILVIE, Dame Bridget Margaret". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content Pty Ltd.
  9. ^ Philipp, M.; Parkhouse, R. M. E.; Ogilvie, B. M. (1980). "Changing proteins on the surface of a parasitic nematode". Nature. 287 (5782): 538–540. Bibcode:1980Natur.287..538P. doi:10.1038/287538a0. PMID 7422005. S2CID 4311397.
  10. ^ Ogilvie, B. M. (1964). "Reagin-like Antibodies in Animals Immune to Helminth Parasites". Nature. 204 (4953): 91–92. Bibcode:1964Natur.204...91O. doi:10.1038/204091a0. PMID 14240134. S2CID 4202691.
  11. ^ a b c "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  12. ^ It's an Honour: AC Archived 2 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine; accessed 8 April 2014.
  13. ^ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  14. ^ "Honorary members - British Society for Immunology". www.immunology.org.
  15. ^ "Prime Minister opened £42M Biodata Innovation Centre and new Sequencing Facility". www.sanger.ac.uk.
Preceded byPeter Williams Director of Wellcome Trust 1991–1998 Succeeded byMichael Dexter

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