Sue Povey

Professor Susan Povey FMedSci (born 1942), also known as Sue, is a British geneticist.

Povey obtained a degree in Natural Sciences (Genetics) from the University of Cambridge in 1967 and subsequently worked as a paediatrician at University College London and in north Africa.

From 1970 to 2000 she was at the Medical Research Council's Human Biochemical Genetics Unit at the Galton Laboratory.

She was Haldane Professor of Human Genetics, at University College London from 2000 to 2007, becoming Emeritus on retirement.

She served as chair of the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee, leading work to agree and assign a single name for every human gene.

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000.