Raymond Dalgleish, PhD

Raymond Dalgleish, PhD
Geneticist (UK)

Raymond Dalgleish studied Cell Biology at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1976. He undertook his PhD studies on the molecular genetics of globin genes at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London with his degree being awarded in 1980. The next four years were spent as a Fogarty International Research Fellow in the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, cloning and analysing the first human collagen genes.

In 1984 he was appointed to an academic post in the Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, UK, where he has remained since. His research initially focussed on the analysis of genes important in the determination of bone mineral density. In 1993 he began a database of human type I collagen mutations that lead to osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The database was later expanded to include type III collagen mutations that lead to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV. His research now focusses on the bioinformatics of human genome sequence variation.

Raymond is a member of the Human Variome Project (HVP) International Scientific Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) Board of Directors and of the joint HUGO/HGVS/HVP Sequence Variation Description Working Group.

Raymond holds the Chair of Human Genetics at the University of Leicester.