Professor Andrew Read | |
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Born | 1939 (age 84–85) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation | Medical geneticist |
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Website | www |
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]