Anna Murray

Anna is Professor of Human Genetics and Director of Research and Impact for the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences. She is part of the 'Reproductive Genomics' research group (https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/reprogenomics/). Her main research expertise is in the field of reproductive ageing and she has published on single gene mutations which cause premature ovarian insufficiency and also genome-wide studies to detect novel loci involved in menopause timing and other reproductive traits.

Anna has a degree in biology from Southampton University, where she also completed her PhD, investigating the molecular biology of coeliac disease and T cell lymphoma of the gut. She spent 5 years as a postdoc in Professor Pat Jacobs' lab in Salisbury investigating the population genetics and molecular basis of fragile X syndrome. In 1998 Anna received a Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to work on the association between the fragile X mutation and premature ovarian failure. Anna moved to Exeter in 2005 following a short career break to have her daughter. Following the Wellcome fellowship, Anna became a lecturer at Exeter in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2022. She is also currently the Director of Research and Impact for the Clinical and Biomedical Sciences Department.