Rob Elles

Rob Elles (born 1951) is a British molecular geneticist.

Early in his career, Elles was a research technician at St Mary's London. He obtained a position at Manchester University in 1983, working on development of the molecular diagnostics laboratory at the same time as undertaking a PhD.

In the 1990s he served as Secretary of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Society, and as co-chair of the expert group developing the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines for quality assurance in molecular Genetic Testing. and as such gave evidence to the House of Lords enquiry on Genomic Medicine.