Jehannine Austin | |
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Born | Jehannine Claire Austin London, England |
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Education | |
Thesis | Optimisation of DHPLC and the study of Candidate Genes for Schizophrenia |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of British Columbia |
Jehannine Claire Austin FCAHS is a British and Canadian neuropsychiatric geneticist and a genetic counselor. They are a professor at the University of British Columbia and Executive Director of the Provincial Health Services Authority's BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute. In 2012, Austin founded the world’s first specialist psychiatric genetic counselling service.