Jennifer Morgan

Professor of Cell Biology

United Kingdom

Jennifer Morgan is Professor of Cell Biology in the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

She graduated from King’s College London with a BSc in zoology and did her PhD in pathology at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. After postdoctoral appointments at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, she joined the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Group at Imperial College London, as a Senior Lecturer before moving to University College London Institute of Child Health as a Reader in 2008 and Professor in 2013. The main areas of her research are the identification of stem cells that contribute to skeletal muscle regeneration, and the genetic and functional manipulation of these cell populations to enhance muscle repair and regeneration and in the treatment of muscular dystrophies. She is also involved in the analysis of dystrophin exon skipping and dystrophin protein production in cells and muscles of patients treated with antisense oligonucleotides in clinical trials.