Penny Jeggo was born in Cambridge, England. She obtained a BSc Honours degree in Microbiology at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London in 1970. She then did a PhD in the Genetics Division at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), London, in Robin Holliday's laboratory. Her first postdoctoral position was with John Cairns at the ICRF Mill Hill Laboratory. She then obtained a postdoctoral fellowship with Miroslav Radman at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. From there, she returned to the Genetics Division at NIMR as a scientific research officer. In 1989, she moved to the Medical Research Council's Cell Mutation Unit (CMU) at the University of Sussex. In 2001, following closure of the CMU on the retirement of the director, Penny became a founding member of the Genome Damage and Stability Centre (GDSC), a new collaborative research centre established by the University of Sussex and the Medical Research...

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