Helen Firth | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, University of Oxford DM, Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Thesis | A study of limb-reduction and other birth defects in babies exposed to first trimester chorionic villus sampling (1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Scholia has a profile for Helen Firth (Q92271212).
Helen V. Firth is a British geneticist who specialises in the application of new genomic technologies to improve the diagnosis of severe developmental disorders. She is clinical lead for the UK-wide Deciphering Developmental Disorders project and global DECIPHER platform for data-sharing in rare disease. In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.