• Donnelly

  Professor Peter Donnelly

  Director

  The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
  

  Professor Peter Donnelly FRS, FMedSci, is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He grew up in Australia before moving to the UK as a doctoral student. Prior to his appointment in Oxford he held academic posts at the Universities of Michigan, Wales, London, and Chicago. His early work was in applied probability, in developing mathematical models for real-world phenomena involving randomness. More recently, his research has focused on genetics. He played a major role in the HapMap project, an international collaboration that followed the Human Genome Project in studying genetic diversity in worldwide populations. He currently chairs the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), a collaboration of over 200 UK scientists studying the genetics of 12 common human diseases, and its successor (WTCCC2). Other research interests include human population structure and histories, bacterial variation, and human recombination. Peter is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

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