What is Denise P. Barlow?
[[File:DenisePBarlow2012.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Barlow in March 2012]] '''Denise P. Barlow''' (31 January 1950 – 21 October 2017) was a British [[geneticist]]. She was born in [[Yorkshire]]. She worked in the field of [[epigenomics]]. Barlow was an elected member of [[European Molecular Biology Organization]] (EMBO), an honorary professor of genetics at the [[University of Vienna]] and received the [[Erwin Schrödinger Prize]] of the [[Austrian Academy of Sciences]] in 2014. Her discovery of the first [[mammalian]] [[Genomic imprinting|imprinted gene]], [[Insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor|IGF2R]], which codes for the [[insulin-like growth factor]] was her best known work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1845916|title=The mouse insulin-like growth factor type-2 receptor is imprinted and closely linked to the Tme locus.|publisher=Barlow et al., 1991 Nature 349, 84-87|access-date=30 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=standard-ww>{{cite web|url=https://derstandard.at/1355460490868/Im-Wilden-Westen-der-Genetik|title=Im Wilden Westen der Genetik|publisher=[[Der Standard]]|first=Kurt|last=De Swaaf|date=23 December 2012|access-date=29 October 2017}}</ref> Barlow died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] on 21 October 2017 at the age of 67.<ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary Denise P. Barlow|url=http://cemm.at/news/n/news/obituary-denise-p-barlow/?cHash=44d405999a8551cdcd1d8829ac38bc99&L=0|date=29 October 2017|publisher=CEMM}}{{Dead link|date=June 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barlow, Denise P.}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Austria]] [[Category:English geneticists]] [[Category:People from Yorkshire]] {{bio-stub}}