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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| Website | www |
Richard Somerset Houlston (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.