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Alan Emery
Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery FRCP, FRCPE, , FLS, FRSA, FRSE (born 1928) is a British medical geneticist, known for his study of muscular dystrophy. Emery began his working life in the King's Hussars,[1] and graduated in biological sciences from University of Manchester.[1] In 1960 he obtained his medical degree there.[1][2] His PhD in human genetics was earned at Johns Hopkins University.[1][2] In 1968 he became a foundation professor of human genetics at the University of Edinburgh.[1] Having established the European Neuromuscular Centre, he was its chief scientific advisor from 1999.[1] He was the first president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Medical Genetics, which he established, from 2001 to 2004.[1] He was a research fellow and subsequently an honorary fellow of Green Templeton College from 1985.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics (FACMG), a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[1] Both Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its defective protein product, emerin, are named after him (the former jointly with Fritz E. Dreifuss)).[1] References
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