Douglas Higgs

Douglas Roland Higgs FRS (born 13 January 1951) is a Professor of Molecular Haematology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, at the University of Oxford. He is known for his work on the regulation of alpha-globin and the genetics of alpha-thalassemia. In 2012, Higgs was appointed director of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM). In 2020, Higgs was succeeded as director of the MRC MHU and WIMM by Ketan J. Patel. Higgs is a Senior Kurti Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Honours and awards 1993 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society 2013 Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society for "his seminal work on the regulation of the human alpha-globin gene cluster and the role of the ATRX protein in genetic disease." 2023 The Genetics Society Medal.

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