Joan Mott (1921–1994) was an English physiologist and zoologist who worked for most of her career at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research. Following wartime work on

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of ships her main research interest was in the

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, especially the fetal

renin–angiotensin system The renin–angiotensin system (RAS), or renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS), is a hormone system that regulates blood pressure, fluid and electrolyte balance, and systemic vascular resistance. When renal blood flow is reduced, juxt ...

. Mott was a founding fellow of and Vicegerent of

Wolfson College, Oxford Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with around sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and ...

. She died on 21 April 1994. The

Joan Mott Prize Lecture The Joan Mott Prize Lecture is a prize lecture awarded annually by The Physiological Society in honour of Joan Mott. Laureates Laureates of the award have included: * * * * * * * * * * * * - ''Intestinal absorption of sugars and pepti ...

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is named in her honour.

Selected publications

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References

Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge British physiologists 1921 births 1994 deaths 20th-century British zoologists Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford Women zoologists Women physiologists {{England-med-bio-stub