Dr Anne Bowcock

Anne Bowcock is Chair in Cancer Genomics at Imperial College London (National Heart and Lung Institute). She has worked on the genetics and genomics of human diseases for 30 years. She obtained a Ph.D. From the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa looking at DNA polymorphisms in Southern African Human populations with Professors Trefor Jenkins and Jennifer Thompson. She then moved to Stanford University (CA, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Professor Luigi Cavalli-Sforza where she continued to perform population genetic studies and began working on the genetic bases of human Mendelian diseases such as cystic fibrosis. She then took up a faculty position at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Dept. of Pediatrics) (U.S.A.) where she was appointed to Associated Professor in the Depts. of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. While in Dallas she also began genetic studies of early onset breast cancer, and psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. She then moved to Washington University in Saint Louis (USA), where she was Professor and joint director of the Division of Human Genetics in the Dept. of Genetics, and was also a member of the Depts. of Pediatrics and Medicine. Her recent research has included the genetic analysis of ocular melanoma and complex human diseases.


	Dr Anne Bowcock Anne Bowcock is Chair in Cancer Genomics at Imperial College London (National Heart and Lung Institute). She has worked on the genetics and genomics of human diseases for 30 years. She obtained a Ph.D. From the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa looking at DNA polymorphisms in Southern African Human populations with Professors Trefor Jenkins and Jennifer Thompson. She then moved to Stanford University (CA, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Professor Luigi Cavalli-Sforza where she continued to perform population genetic studies and began working on the genetic bases of human Mendelian diseases such as cystic fibrosis. She then took up a faculty position at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Dept. of Pediatrics) (U.S.A.) where she was appointed to Associated Professor in the Depts. of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. While in Dallas she also began genetic studies of early onset breast cancer, and psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis. She then moved to Washington University in Saint Louis (USA), where she was Professor and joint director of the Division of Human Genetics in the Dept. of Genetics, and was also a member of the Depts. of Pediatrics and Medicine. Her recent research has included the genetic analysis of ocular melanoma and complex human diseases.