Martin Bobrow | |
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Born | 6 February 1938 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Geneticist |
Employer | Wolfson College, Cambridge |
Martin Bobrow CBE , FRCP , FRCPath , FRS , FMedSci (born 1938) is a British geneticist, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge. [1]
Bobrow graduated in South Africa and then migrated to the United Kingdom. [2]
He held chairs of medical genetics at the University of Amsterdam and at Guy's Hospital, and from 1995 to 2005 was professor of medical genetics at Cambridge University. [2] [3]
He has served on the council of the Medical Research Council; as a governor of the Wellcome Trust; as national chair of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; and chair of the Clinical Genetics Society; as chair of the Committee on Radiation in the Environment, chair of the Unrelated Living Transplant Regulating Authority; deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and as a member of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission. [2]
He is a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, [4] and a Non-executive Director of Cambridge University Hospitals. [5]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci); and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours, "For services to Science.". [6]
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