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Andrew Read

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Professor
Andrew Read
Born1939 (age 84–85)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationMedical geneticist
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Andrew P. Read (born 1939) is a British medical geneticist.

Read studied organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[1] Once he had obtained his doctorate, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and at the University of Warwick.[1]

In 1967 he obtained a post at the University of Manchester, moving to its Medical Genetics Department in 1977.[1] His research subjects included neural tube defects and the genes involved in hereditary deafness.[1] he became Emeritus upon formal retirement.[2]

He served as chair of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Society and was founder chair of the British Society for Human Genetics from 1996 to 2000.[1][3]

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Emma M. Jones; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2014). Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c.1975–c.2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-88-6. Wikidata Q29581803.
  2. ^ "Professor Andrew Read (PhD FRCPath FMedSci) research profile - personal details". University of Manchester. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  3. ^ "History". British Society for Human Genetics. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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