Adrian Peter Bird
Geneticist and Professor at the University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1947 · age 79
Sir Adrian Peter Bird is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
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Bird has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and later serving as director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. His research focuses on understanding DNA methylation and CpG islands, and their role in diseases such as Rett syndrome.
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