She started a lifelong collaboration with Walter Morgan[3] and she obtained special permission to be credited on a joint paper as she lacked the qualifications normally required.

[1] After studying at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School she obtained a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of London in 1950.

[4] Following her publication of an important paper that explained the biosynthesis of blood groups she was funded to work at the University of California.

Awards followed for her contribution to blood transfusion and she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1969 and of the University of London in 1970.

[5] She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:"In recognition of her fundamental contributions towards an understanding of the biochemical genetics of carbohydrate antigens on cell surfaces and in secreted glycoproteins."