Bruce Macintosh Cattanach FRS[1] (5 November 1932–8 April 2020) was a British mouse geneticist, known for his pioneering work in the fields of autosomal imprinting and X chromosome inactivation.
Bruce Macintosh Cattanach | |
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| Born | 5 November 1932 |
| Died | 8 April 2020 (aged 87) |
| Education | Heaton Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne; Durham University; Institute of Genetics, Edinburgh (Ph.D.)[1] |
| Known for | Work on autosomal imprinting and X chromosome inactivation. |
| Spouses | Margaret Bouchier Crewe (d. 1996); Jo Peters[1] |
| Parents | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mouse genetics |
| Institutions | MRC Harwell; Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee; City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Charlotte Auerbach[1] |
| Other academic advisors | Robert G. Edwards[1] |
With contemporaries that included Mary Lyon FRS (who discovered X chromosome inactivation), Bruce’s research career was based at MRC Harwell. He would go on to serve as acting director of the new Mammalian Genetics Unit[2] in 1996.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987, and the Bruce Cattanach Prize was launched by the Genetics Society in 2022.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i Peters, Jo; Rastan, Sohaila (2022). "Bruce Macintosh Cattanach. 5 November 1932—8 April 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 73: 85–106. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0013. S2CID 251071314.
- ^ "Dr. Bruce Cattanach, former director of the MGU, has sadly passed away". 9 April 2020.
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