Alan Emery
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| Born | Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery 1928 (age 95–96) |
| Education | Green Templeton College , Oxford |
Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery
Emery began his working life in the King's Hussars,[1] and graduated in biological sciences from University of Manchester.[1] In 1960 he obtained his medical degree there.[1][2]
His PhD in human genetics was earned at Johns Hopkins University.[1][2]
In 1968 he became a foundation professor of human genetics at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
Having established the European Neuromuscular Centre, he was its chief scientific advisor from 1999.[1]
He was the first president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Medical Genetics, which he established, from 2001 to 2004.[1]
He was a research fellow and subsequently an honorary fellow of
He was elected a
Both Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its defective protein product, emerin, are named after him (the former jointly with Fritz E. Dreifuss)).[1]
References
- ^ Wikidata Q29581774.
- ^ a b "Alan Emery". University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
External links
- Alan Emery on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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