The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Leena Peltonen Interviewed by Andrea Anderson

Leena Peltonen is the Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, Research Director at the... » More

Leena Peltonen is the Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK, Research Director at the Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, University of Helsinki and National Public Health Institute, Finland and is also a visiting Professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University Cambridge, MA. With over 400 publications, Dr. Peltonen is among leading molecular geneticists world-wide. She is one of the pioneers in the use of genetically isolated populations in the genetics-based identification of disease genes. She was the founding Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at UCLA in 1998-2002 and president of HUGO in 2005-2007. Dr. Peltonen has also served as a member of the UNESCO Bioethics Committee, and since 2006 she has been a Foreign Associate Member of the National Academies USA, Institute of Medicine (IOM). She is also a member of the international board of the European Research Council. « Hide