Rob Elles

FRCPath
Born1951 (age 72–73)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationMolecular geneticist

Dr. Rob Elles FRCPath (born 1951) is a British molecular geneticist.

Early in his career, Elles was a research technician at St Mary's London.[1] He obtained a position at Manchester University in 1983, working on development of the molecular diagnostics laboratory at the same time as undertaking a PhD.[1] He rose to be Clinical Director of Genetic Medicine at Manchester, retiring in 2013.[1][2]

In the 1990s he served as Secretary of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Society, and as co-chair of the expert group developing the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines for quality assurance in molecular Genetic Testing.[1][2]

He was chair of the British Society for Human Genetics from 2007 to 2009,[3] and as such gave evidence to the House of Lords enquiry on Genomic Medicine.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Emma M. Jones; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2014). Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c.1975–c.2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-88-6. Wikidata Q29581803.
  2. 1 2 "Rob Elles". www.eurogentest.org. EuroGentest. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "History". British Society for Human Genetics. Retrieved 6 August 2017.


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