Evan Eichler, Ph.D., is a Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigator in the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
School of Medicine. He graduated with a B.Sc. Honours degree in Biology from
the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in
1995 from the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston. After a Hollaender post-doctoral fellowship at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined the faculty of Case
Western Reserve University in 1997 and later the UW Department of Genome
Sciences in 2004. He was a March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Scholar
(1998-2001), was appointed as a HHMI Investigator (2005), and was awarded an
AAAS Fellowship (2006). He is an editor of Genome Research and has served on
various scientific advisory boards for both NIH and NSF. His research group
provided the first genome-wide view of segmental duplications within human
and other primate genomes and he is a leader in an effort to identify and
sequence normal and disease-causing structural variation in the human
genome. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the evolution
and mechanisms of recent gene duplication and its relationship to structural
variation and human disease.
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