Richard Houlston

FRS FMedSci FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FRSB
Houlston in 2017
Born (1956-07-10) 10 July 1956 (age 67)
Reading, Berkshire, England
Education
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsMedical genetics
Institutions
Websitewww.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/professor-richard-houlston

Richard Somerset Houlston FRS FMedSci FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FRSB (born 10 July 1956)[1] is a British medical geneticist. He is a professor of molecular and population genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.[1][2]

Education

Houlston graduated BSc, MB BS from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, University of London[3] and was subsequently awarded MD and PhD degrees from the University of London and a DSc[4] from Imperial College, London.

Research and career

The main focus of his research is the identification and characterisation of genetic susceptibility to cancer.[5]

Awards and honours

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2010[6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[7] in 2017.

References

  1. ^ a b "Houlston, Prof. Richard Somerset". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U265605. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Professor Richard Houlston".
  3. ^ Richard Houlston ORCID 0000-0002-5268-0242
  4. ^ "Imperial College London DSc Awards".
  5. ^ Richard Houlston publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ "The Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow, Prof. Richard Houlston". 2017.
  7. ^ "The Royal Society Fellows Directory".
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