Arthur L Beaudet is a founder and CEO of Luna Genetics.
10 Facts About Arthur Beaudet
Arthur Beaudet is a past professor and chair of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine.
Arthur Beaudet was inducted into the Institute of Medicine in 1995, the Society of Scholars in 2008 and into the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Arthur Beaudet received a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1963 and received his MD from Yale Medical School in 1967.
Arthur Beaudet completed a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1969 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health two years later.
Arthur Beaudet began his research in the 1960s with studies on protein synthesis.
In 1988, Arthur Beaudet's laboratory published a paper regarding the mechanism by which uniparental disomy might cause certain types of human genetic disease.
Arthur Beaudet's group co-discovered that the UBE3A gene was inactivated as the cause of Angelman syndrome, and that deletion of the snoRNAs likely contributes to the Prader-Willi phenotype.
Arthur Beaudet has developed a test which enables doctors to detect whether or not a child was conceived as a result of incest without testing either parent.
Arthur Beaudet has worked for over a decade trying to develop a commercial form of cell-based noninvasive prenatal testing using fetal cells in the mother's blood during the first trimester.