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Peter Harper (geneticist)

British physician (1939–2021)

Summary

British physician (1939–2021)

Field	Value
name	Sir Peter Harper
CBE
birth_name	Peter Stanley Harper
birth_date
birth_place	Barnstaple, Devon, England
death_date
fields	Neurogenetics
known_for	Work on muscular dystrophy and Huntington's disease
work_institutions	Cardiff University
University of Wales College of Medicine
UK Human Genetics Commission
Advisory Committee on Genetic testing
Nuffield Council on Bioethics

CBE University of Wales College of Medicine UK Human Genetics Commission Advisory Committee on Genetic testing Nuffield Council on Bioethics Sir Peter Stanley Harper (28 April 1939 – 23 January 2021) was a British physician and academic who was University Research Professor (Emeritus) in Human Genetics at Cardiff University. His work focused on researching neurogenetics and has resulted in discoveries concerning muscular dystrophies and Huntington's disease. He was knighted in 2004 for services to medicine.

Work

Until 2004, Sir Peter was Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. He helped to develop the All Wales Medical Genomics Service (AWMGS) and has been a member of the UK Human Genetics Commission and Advisory Committee on Genetic testing. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2004-2010. As a consultant to the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, he has contributed to several oral histories which address recent developments in clinical genetics in the UK.

Honours and awards

He delivered the Lumleian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1995. He was appointed a Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours for services to Medical Genetics and was knighted in the 2004 Birthday Honours, for services to Medicine.

Books

Practical Genetic Counselling, 1998 Hodder Arnold
Myotonic Dystrophy: The Facts, 2002
Landmarks in Medical Genetics, 2004 OUP
First Years of Human Chromosomes, 2006 Scion Press
A Short History of Medical Genetics, 2008. OUP

References

Offord, Catherine. (2 February 2021). "Respected Medical Geneticist Sir Peter Harper Dies at 81". [[The Scientist (magazine).
(2010). "Clinical genetics in Britain: origins and development : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, on 23 September 2008". Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
(2013). "Clinical Cancer Genetics: Polyposis and familial colorectal cancer c.1975-c.2010". Queen Mary, University of London.
(2014). "Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c. 1975-c.2000". Queen Mary, University of London.
"Prof. Peter Stanley Harper archive". Cardiff University.

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