Professor
University College London
Stephan Beck is Professor of Medical Genomics at UCL since 2007 and Director of the UK Personal Genome Project. He received his PhD in 1985 from Konstanz University where he studied DNA structure. After appointments at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge, Millipore Corporation in Boston, and the ICRF in London, he joined the Sanger Centre in 1996. During his tenure as Head of Human Sequencing, he played a leading role in the sequencing and analysis of the human genome. His current research focuses on the genomics and epigenomics of phenotypic plasticity in health and disease to advance translational, regenerative and personalized medicine.
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