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David L. Nelson | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
Alma mater | University of Virginia (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (PhD, Postdoc) Baylor College of Medicine (Postdoc) |
Awards | William Rosen Award (2000) Huntington Disease Society of America Leadership Award (200) Barbara Bowman Distinguished Geneticist (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Molecular genetics, Human genome, Segmental duplication, Gene duplication |
Institutions | University of Virginia MIT Department of Biology National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Baylor College of Medicine |
Thesis | Chromosome Transfer of Introduced Selectable Markers: Use in Gene Mapping and Isolation (1984) |
Academic advisors | David Housman |
David L. Nelson (born 1956) is an American human geneticist, currently an associate director at the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (1995), and professor at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine BCM since 1999. Since 2018, he is the director at the Cancer and Cell Biology Ph.D program, and the director of Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D since 2015 at BCM.[1][2]