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

FRS FMedSci
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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References
  1. Anon (2018). "Houlston, Prof. Richard Somerset". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.265605. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription 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
  6. "The Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow, Prof. Richard Houlston". 2017.
  7. "The Royal Society Fellows Directory".
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