Richard Trembath is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Leicester. He is distinguished for his contributions to medical molecular genetic research, in a wide-ranging programme aimed at delineating the molecular genetic basis of single gene and common complex disorders. With Anita Harding, he was the first to show that mutations in mitochondrial DNA can predispose to diabetes mellitus. Recent major contributions include the positional cloning of genes involved in the most common syndromic form of hearing loss, Pendred syndrome; the identification of the gene mutated in partial lipodystophy, an adipocyte disorder; and most recently the characterisation of the molecular genetic basis of the vascular disorder, primary pulmonary hypertension.
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Back to directory listingProfessor Richard Trembath FMedSci
Job Title
Senior Vice President Health & Life Sciences and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre
Institution
King's College London
Year elected
2002
Interests
Specialitiesmedicine, clinical genetics, molecular genetics, genomics, genetic basis of disease, pulmonary vascular disease, genetics of psoriasis
Section committee elected byCellular and developmental biology, microbiology and immunology, genetics
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