Evan Eichler | |
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Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer | |
| Education | University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.) Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize Curt Stern Award (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genomics Segmental duplication Copy-number variation Autism spectrum disorder Developmental delay Gene duplication |
| Workplaces | University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Saskatchewan Baylor College of Medicine Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LMU Munich University of Saskatchewan |
| David Nelson[citation needed] | |
| Website | eichlerlab www |
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.
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.
Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies, segmental duplication and structural variation.