Richard Houlston

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Richard Houlston
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Houlston in 2017
Born (1956-07-10) 10 July 1956 (age 68)
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Scientific career
Fields Medical genetics
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Website www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/professor-richard-houlston

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]

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Education

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.

Research and career

The main focus of his research is the identification and characterisation of genetic susceptibility to cancer. [5]

Awards and honours

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.

References

  1. 1 2 "Houlston, Prof. Richard Somerset" . Who's Who . A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U265605.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Professor Richard Houlston".
  3. Richard Houlston ORCID   0000-0002-5268-0242
  4. "Imperial College London DSc Awards". hdl:10044/1/6960.
  5. Richard Houlston publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. "The Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow, Prof. Richard Houlston". 2017.
  7. "The Royal Society Fellows Directory".