Item GS/8/9/6/1 - Photograph of Sir Walter Bodmer

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Black and white photograph of Sir Walter Bodmer

Admin History: Sir Walter Fred Bodmer FRS (born 10 January 1936) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is a German-born British human geneticist. He was awarded his PhD in 1959 from Cambridge for research on population genetics in the house mouse and Primula vulgaris (primrose) supervised by Ronald Fisher. Bodmer developed models for population genetics and worked on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies. He was one of the first to suggest the idea of the Human Genome Project. In 1987 he received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine. He was the director of research (1979–1991) and then Director General (1991–1996) of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was also Chancellor of the University of Salford, England (1995–2005) and Principal of Hertford College, Oxford (1996–2005) He is currently Head of the Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford. Research interests of the laboratory include the fundamental genetics and biology of colorectal cancer.