Richard Houlston

Richard Somerset Houlston (born 10 July 1956) FRS FMedSci is a clinical geneticist and Professor of Molecular and Population Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London[1][2].

Richard Houlston

Born
Richard Somerset Houlston

(1956-07-10)July 10, 1956
Alma materImperial College London
Scientific career
FieldsMedical Genetics
InstitutionsInstitute of Cancer Research
Websitewww.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/professor-richard-houlston

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.

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