Janet Thornton

Dame Janet Thornton

DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC
Dame Janet Thornton; DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC
	Janet Thornton
Born	Janet Maureen McLoughlin; 23 May 1949
Nationality	British
Education	Bury Grammar School
Alma mater	University of Nottingham (BSc); King's College London (PhD);
Known for	EBI; CATH; ELIXIR;
Spouse	Alan D. Thornton (m. 1970)
Children	2
Awards	EMBO Member (2000); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003); ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2005); Suffrage Science award (2011);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational biology; Protein structural biology; Bioinformatics; Ageing;
Institutions	European Bioinformatics Institute; National Institute for Medical Research; University of Oxford; University College London;
Thesis	The conformation of dinucleotides (1975)
Notable students	David Jones; Sarah Teichmann (postdoc);
Website	www.ebi.ac.uk/research/thornton

Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, DBE FRS FMedSci FRSC (born 23 May 1949) is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is one of the world's leading researchers in structural bioinformatics, using computational methods to understand protein structure and function. She served as director of the EBI from October 2001 to June 2015, and played a key role in ELIXIR.

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