Alan Emery

{{short description|British medical geneticist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{about||the Canadian marine biologist|Alan R. Emery}} {{Use dmy dates|date= June 2017}} {{Use British English|date= June 2017}}

{{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = Professor | image = | birth_name = Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1928}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = University of Manchester, Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.) | workplaces = University of Edinburgh, Green Templeton College, Oxford | occupation = Medical genetics | known_for = Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its defective protein product, emerin | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = }}

'''Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCP|FRCPE|FACMG|FLS|FRSA|FRSE|sep=,}} (born August 21, 1928) is a British medical geneticist, known for his study of muscular dystrophy.

Emery began his working life in the King's Hussars,<ref name="HoMBRG">{{cite Q|Q29581774}}</ref> and graduated in biological sciences from University of Manchester.<ref name="HoMBRG" /> In 1960 he obtained his medical degree there.<ref name="HoMBRG" /><ref name="ox">{{cite web |title=Alan Emery |url=https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/alan-emery|publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=5 July 2017 |language=en-gb}}</ref>

His PhD in human genetics was earned at Johns Hopkins University.<ref name="HoMBRG" /><ref name="ox" />

In 1968 he became a foundation professor of human genetics at the University of Edinburgh.<ref name="HoMBRG" />

Having established the European Neuromuscular Centre, he was its chief scientific advisor from 1999.<ref name="HoMBRG" />

He was the first president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Medical Genetics, which he established, from 2001 to 2004.<ref name="HoMBRG" />

He was a research fellow and subsequently an honorary fellow of Green Templeton College from 1985.<ref name="HoMBRG" />

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics (FACMG), a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).<ref name="HoMBRG" />

Both Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its first known defective protein product, emerin, are named after him (the former jointly with Fritz E. Dreifuss).<ref name="HoMBRG" />

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