Alan Emery

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Alan Emery

FRCP , FRCPE , FLS , FRSA , FRSE
Born
Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery

1928 (age 9495)
NationalityBritish
OccupationMedical geneticist

Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery FRCP , FRCPE , FLS , FRSA , FRSE (born 1928) is a British medical geneticist, known for his study of muscular dystrophy.

Emery began his working life in the King's Hussars, [1] and graduated in biological sciences from University of Manchester. [1] In 1960 he obtained his medical degree there. [1] [2]

His PhD in human genetics was earned at Johns Hopkins University. [1] [2]

In 1968 he became a foundation professor of human genetics at the University of Edinburgh. [1]

Having established the European Neuromuscular Centre, he was its chief scientific advisor from 1999. [1]

He was the first president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Medical Genetics, which he established, from 2001 to 2004. [1]

He was a research fellow and subsequently an honorary fellow of Green Templeton College from 1985. [1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics (FACMG), a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). [1]

Both Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its defective protein product, emerin, are named after him (the former jointly with Fritz E. Dreifuss)). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Peter Harper; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2010). Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-127-1. Wikidata   Q29581774.
  2. 1 2 "Alan Emery". University of Oxford . Retrieved 5 July 2017.