1. Walter Bodmer was awarded his PhD in 1959 from Cambridge for research on population genetics in the house mouse and Primula vulgaris supervised by Ronald Fisher.
13 Facts About Walter Bodmer
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In 1961 Bodmer joined Joshua Lederberg's laboratory in the genetics department of Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher, continuing his work on population genetics.
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In 1962 Walter Bodmer was appointed to the faculty at Stanford.
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Walter Bodmer left Stanford University in 1970 to become the first professor of genetics at the University of Oxford.
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Walter Bodmer was Vice-President of the Royal Institution from 1981 until 1982.
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Walter 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.
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Walter Bodmer was one of the first to suggest the idea of the Human Genome Project.
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Walter Bodmer was the director of research and then director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
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Walter Bodmer was chancellor of the University of Salford, England and principal of Hertford College, Oxford.
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Walter Bodmer was joined by Oxford Professor Peter Donnelly and the Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Lon Cardon.
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Walter Bodmer had previously worked with the Galton Institute as its president from 2008 to 2014.
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Walter Bodmer has been head of the cancer and immunogenetics laboratory in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford since 1996.
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Walter Bodmer's father was Jewish so the family were obliged to leave Nazi Germany; in 1938, they settled in Manchester, England.