Fellow 1998-2003

Research Interests
Interest in inherited human disorders associated with unstable DNA, e.g. myotonic dystrophy and Huntington’s Disease. Studying molecular mechanisms that give rise to somatic and germ line genetic instability. The relation of these factors to downstream pathology.

Other Information
Presented the Genetical Society’s Balfour Lecture 1999
Promoted to Reader from 1.8.00
Awarded Personal Chair in Human Genetics, 2005
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005
Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2007
Presented the Tenovus (Scotland) Medal Lecture, 2008
Awarded Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Science Communication Award, 2012
Awarded Muscular Dystrophy UK President’s Award for Scientist of the Year, 2017
Awarded Huntington’s Disease Society of America Researcher of the Year, 2019
Steinert Basic Science Award of the International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium 2024
Muscular Dystrophy Association Sammy Davis Jr. Neuromuscular Disease Named Research Fellow 1994-1996