Anne Ridley

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Anne Ridley
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Ridley in 2017
Born
Anne Jacqueline Ridley

1963 (age 6061) [1]
Alma mater University of Cambridge
University of London
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Mechanisms of oncogene action and interaction in Schwann cells  (1989)
Doctoral advisor Hartmut Land [4]
Website research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/anne-j-ridley(68d1bf7e-4a1b-4bcb-abd8-316e35f5f768).html

Anne Jacqueline Ridley (born 1963) [1] is a British biologist who is professor of Cell Biology and Head of School for Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol. She was previously a professor at King's College London. [5] [4] [6] [7] [8]

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Education

Ridley was educated at Clare College, Cambridge [1] and awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Cambridge in 1985. After being encouraged by Tim Hunt to pursue a career in research [9] she moved to the University of London where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989 [10] for research investigating the regulation of oncogenes in Schwann cells supervised by Hartmut Land [9] [11] [12] at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

Career and research

Ridley started her career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1989 to 1990 and the Institute of Cancer Research in London from 1990 to 1993. She was appointed research group leader at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 2007 and Professor of Cell Biology at UCL from 2003 to 2007.

Since 2007, she has been Professor at King's College London [6] and her research has made contributions to our understanding of cancer, tumour progression and inflammation through her work on cell migration and the Rho family of GTPases. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Work in her laboratory [17] [18] [19] has influenced many areas of medical science, from metastasis to cardiovascular disease and infection. Funding for her research has been provided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), [20] Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Worldwide Cancer Research. [7] [21]

Awards and honours

Ridley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. [3] She was also awarded the Robert Hooke Medal by the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB) in 2000, [3] EMBO Membership in 2002 [2] and the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Life Sciences in 2004. [3] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2012. [3] She became an honorary fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) in 2014. [3]

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  11. Ridley, A. J.; Davis, J. B.; Stroobant, P.; Land, H. (1989). "Transforming growth factors-beta 1 and beta 2 are mitogens for rat Schwann cells". Journal of Cell Biology . 109 (6 Pt 2): 3419–3424. doi:10.1083/jcb.109.6.3419. ISSN   0021-9525. PMC   2115905 . PMID   2557356.
  12. Ridley, A J; Paterson, H F; Noble, M; Land, H (1988). "Ras-mediated cell cycle arrest is altered by nuclear oncogenes to induce Schwann cell transformation". The EMBO Journal . 7 (6): 1635–1645. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1988.tb02990.x. ISSN   0261-4189. PMC   457147 . PMID   3049071.
  13. Ridley, Anne J (2015). "Rho GTPase signalling in cell migration". Current Opinion in Cell Biology . 36: 103–112. doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2015.08.005. PMC   4728192 . PMID   26363959. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
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  15. Heasman, Sarah J.; Ridley, Anne J. (2008). "Mammalian Rho GTPases: new insights into their functions from in vivo studies". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology . 9 (9): 690–701. doi:10.1038/nrm2476. PMID   18719708. S2CID   16205866.(subscription required)
  16. Ridley, Anne J. (2006). "Rho GTPases and actin dynamics in membrane protrusions and vesicle trafficking". Trends in Cell Biology. 16 (10): 522–529. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2006.08.006. ISSN   0962-8924. PMID   16949823.(subscription required)
  17. Cantelli, Gaia (2016). Transcriptional programs controlling actomyosin contractility in melanoma. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). King's College London. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.700781. Lock-green.svg
  18. Dwyer, Joseph (2015). Characterisation of the formin protein FHOD1 in striated muscle. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). King's College London. OCLC   929654231. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.677210. Lock-green.svg
  19. Philippeos, Christina (2014). Insulin signalling in endothelial cells. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). King's College London. OCLC   918458935. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.677057. Lock-green.svg
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  21. Anne Ridley ORCID   0000-0001-8186-5708