Mabel in the News
John West Prize
On February 15, 2025, I was awarded the John West Prize for Groundbreaking Hypoxia Research for my work on Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald. The prize was awarded after I presented an invited lecture about Mabel at the prestigious International Hypoxia Symposium at Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
On October 14, 2022, I had the great honor of unveiling a Blue Plaque at Mabel's home in Oxford, UK commemorating her accomplishments.
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http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/fitzgerald.html
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Professor David Paterson, Chair, Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, Martha Tissot van Patot, and Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Nobel Prize Laureate
Blue Plaque
Nobel Prize
In 2019, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to the availability of oxygen."
In the opening slide of his acceptance speech, Sir Ratcliffe lauded Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald for her pioneering work demonstrating the extreme sensitivity of the hypoxia system.