Evan E. Eichler
American geneticist
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Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.[1][3][4][5]
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.)
Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize
Curt Stern Award (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Curt Stern Award (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Evan Eichler | |
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Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer | |
| Education | University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.) Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize Curt Stern Award (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genomics Segmental duplication Copy-number variation Autism spectrum disorder Developmental delay Gene duplication[1] |
| Workplaces | University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Saskatchewan Baylor College of Medicine Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LMU Munich University of Saskatchewan[2] |
| David Nelson[citation needed] | |
| Website | eichlerlab www |
Education
Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and the Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995[2] for work on the FMR1 gene.[6]
Research
Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,[7] segmental duplication and structural variation.[1][8]
Awards
- Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]
- Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.[10]
- He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as one of the co-authors of the May 2010 paper in Science[11] on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.[12][13]
- Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[14]
