James F. Gusella | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) |
| Citizenship | Canada |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Contributing to identification of the gene that causes Huntington's disease |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | genetics, neurology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Selection and localization of cloned DNA sequences from human chromosome 11 (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Housman |
| Doctoral students | Rudolph E. Tanzi |
James Francis Gusella (born 1952 in Ottawa) is a Canadian molecular biologist and geneticist known for his work on Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases in humans. He is the Bullard Professor of Neurogenetics in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Mass General Research Institute.[1]