Adrian Bird CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci, PhD

Adrian Bird is Buchanan Professor of Genetics at Edinburgh University and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. Following a Ph.D. at Edinburgh and postdoctoral training at Yale and Zurich, he started a research group back in Edinburgh. Later he became a group leader at the Institute for Molecular Pathology in Vienna, returning to Edinburgh in 1990. His group studies the origin and interpretation of DNA methylation patterns in health and disease.