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]

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. ^ 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 Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ "The Academy of Medical Sciences Fellow, Prof. Richard Houlston". 2017.
  7. ^ "The Royal Society Fellows Directory".