Evan E. Eichler

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Evan Eichler
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Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer
Alma mater University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.)
Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Awards Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Curt Stern Award (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Fields Genomics
Segmental duplication
Copy-number variation
Autism spectrum disorder
Developmental delay
Gene duplication [1]
Institutions University of Washington
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Saskatchewan
Baylor College of Medicine
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Saskatchewan [2]
Doctoral advisor David Nelson[ citation needed ]
Website eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu
www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/eichler_bio.html

Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Education

Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995 [2] for work on the FMR1 gene. [7]

Research

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies, [8] segmental duplication and structural variation. [1] [9]

Awards

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