Dame Bridget Ogilvie obituary (opens in new tab)

Parasitologist and director of the Wellcome Trust who oversaw the launch of the UK’s flagship genome sequencing centreIn 2003 an international consortium published the complete sequence of all 3bn “letters” that make up the human genetic code. The UK’s leading role in this effort owed much to the guiding hand of the plain-speaking Australian-born scientist Bridget Ogilvie. As director of the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest medical research charity, she oversaw the creation in 1993 of the Sa...