
EMBO Member
David J. Weatherall
DeceasedEMBO 1983
1933 – 2018
Evolutionary biology of common forms of haemoglobin variants
Although I have been retired for over 15 years I still run a small research group in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Our work relates mainly to studies in the developing countries of the molecular basis for the phenotypic variation in the thalassaemias and the evolutionary biology that underlies their extremely high frequency.
Keywords
Genetic disorders of haemoglobin / regulation of haemoglobin synthesis / application of molecular biology to human disease