Ann G. Clarke (née Jewkes) is a British immunologist and co-founder of the Frozen Ark project. [1]
Clarke's research focused on the immunological relationship between mouse mothers and embryos. For six years she was an Inspector for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. [1]
She and her husband, Bryan Clarke, made several scientific expeditions to French Polynesia, where they realised that the partula snail was facing rapid extinction after the introduction of a predator as a biological control for a different species. Inspired by this, they and Anne McLaren (1927–2007) founded the Frozen Ark project to preserve the DNA of species threatened with extinction. As of 2017 [update] the project held some 48,000 frozen samples from 5,500 species. [2]
In 2017 Clarke was the subject of an episode of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific. [2]
Ann Jewkes married Professor Bryan Clarke (1932–2014) in 1960. They had a daughter and a son. [3]
Ann G. Clarke (née Jewkes) is a British immunologist and co-founder of the Frozen Ark project. [1]
Clarke's research focused on the immunological relationship between mouse mothers and embryos. For six years she was an Inspector for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. [1]
She and her husband, Bryan Clarke, made several scientific expeditions to French Polynesia, where they realised that the partula snail was facing rapid extinction after the introduction of a predator as a biological control for a different species. Inspired by this, they and Anne McLaren (1927–2007) founded the Frozen Ark project to preserve the DNA of species threatened with extinction. As of 2017 [update] the project held some 48,000 frozen samples from 5,500 species. [2]
In 2017 Clarke was the subject of an episode of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific. [2]
Ann Jewkes married Professor Bryan Clarke (1932–2014) in 1960. They had a daughter and a son. [3]