WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD: SHARON PEACOCK

 

"Sharon Peacock, one of the world’s top scientific warriors in the battle with the 0.0001-millimetre virus that causes COVID-19, had to fight a much more personal battle inside Britain’s education system to rise to the top.

Peacock, 61, is a globally recognised virus hunter: COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK), which she set up a year ago as the pandemic swept towards Britain, has sequenced nearly half of all the novel coronavirus genomes so far mapped around the world.

Her life story is a song to meritocracy and an illustration of how the quiet kindness of strangers can change the fate of a young life.

But it is also a tale of how the British educational system almost overlooked the talents of a young woman who would become a distinguished Cambridge professor of microbiology and put her country at the leading edge of sequencing a virus that has sown personal and economic devastation across the planet."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-peacock-ne-idUSKBN2BA25Q?taid=6053bf5aa8e0d30001b4bf3f&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter