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Bruce Macintosh Cattanach

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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.

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Dr. Bruce Cattanach, former director of the MGU, has sadly passed away". 9 April 2020.