Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.Faculty profile, U. Washington Genome Sciences, retrieved 2011-07-14.
Education Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and the Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995 for work on the FMR1 gene.
Research Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies, segmental duplication and structural variation.
Awards Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Nine named AAAS Fellows, University week, University of Washington, November 30, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2011 Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.Past ASHG Award Recipients , American Society of Human Genetics. Accessed July 14, 2011 He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as one of the co-authors of the May 2010 paper in Science on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients , American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011Draft Sequence of Neandertal Genome Wins the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Supported by Affymetrix, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011 Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, "NAS News", 2012
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