[1] Judith Kimble received her Bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971.
[8] However, whilst in her last year as an undergraduate, she took a temporary job at the University of Copenhagen Medical School, she taught medical students about the structure and function of human organs, which, combined with her undergraduate studies in human embryology, sparked an interest in the "basic problems in animal development."
Kimble then moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where she spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow working with Sir John Sulston on the control of organogenesis.
Kimble's more recent work has focused on sexual dimorphism in order to understand how organs with different shapes, sizes and tissues can be made from the same starting cells.
She has trained more than 30 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, including Tim Schedl, and Julie Ahringer.