Richard Houlston | |
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 Houlston in 2017 | |
| Born | 10 July 1956 Reading, Berkshire, England |
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| Fields | Medical genetics |
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Richard Somerset Houlston FRS FMedSci FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FRSB (born 10 July 1956) [1] is a British medical geneticist. He is a professor of molecular and population genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. [1] [2]
Houlston graduated BSc, MB BS from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, University of London [3] and was subsequently awarded MD and PhD degrees from the University of London and a DSc [4] from Imperial College, London.
The main focus of his research is the identification and characterisation of genetic susceptibility to cancer. [5]
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2010 [6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [7] in 2017.
Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.
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Ole Holger Petersen is a research professor at Cardiff University where he studies physiology, especially calcium signalling and the pancreas. He was born in 1943 in Copenhagen, the first son of Joergen Petersen, an officer in the Danish navy, and Elisabeth née Klein, a pianist.
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