About Hugh Gurling
Lived 1950 – 2013 (aged 63). Hugh Gurling was a British geneticist.
Hugh Malcolm Douglas Gurling (6 May 1950 – 2 November 2013) was an English medical geneticist who specialised in the role of genetics and mental health. He led a molecular psychiatry laboratory at University College, London.
Gurling was born in London on 6 May 1950, and brought up in Derbyshire. His father, Kenneth Gurling, was a physician and inaugural dean of the University of Nottingham. His mother, Nonie Sempill, was a nurse.
In 1987, he married Meryl Dahlitz, an academic neuropsychiatrist. In 1994 they had their first daughter Holly, and then twins Laurel and Alisdair in 1998.
Death
Gurling died of a heart attack on 2 November 2013.
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Hugh Gurling was born on 6 May 1950 in London.
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