Martin Bobrow

{{Short description|British geneticist}}

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Martin Bobrow (born 1938) is a British geneticist, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-martin-bobrow|title=Professor Martin Bobrow CBE DSc FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRS - Wolfson College Cambridge|website=www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk|access-date=26 May 2014|archive-date=28 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528005714/http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-martin-bobrow|url-status=live}}

Bobrow graduated in South Africa and then migrated to the United Kingdom.{{cite Q|Q29581774}}

He held chairs of medical genetics at the University of Amsterdam and at Guy's Hospital, and from 1995 to 2005 was professor of medical genetics at Cambridge University.{{cite journal | pmc=1050478 | page=410 | volume=32 | issue=6 | journal=Journal of Medical Genetics | title=Biographical note: Professor Martin Bobrow | doi=10.1136/jmg.32.6.410|year = 1995}}

He has served on the council of the Medical Research Council; as a governor of the Wellcome Trust; as national chair of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign; and chair of the Clinical Genetics Society; as chair of the Committee on Radiation in the Environment, chair of the Unrelated Living Transplant Regulating Authority; deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and as a member of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission.

He is a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences,{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107022302/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/5597/Martin+BOBROW.aspx |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/5597/Martin+BOBROW.aspx|title=Prof Martin Bobrow, CBE, FRS Authorised Biography |work=Debrett's People of Today |archivedate=7 January 2012|publisher=Debrett's}} and a Non-executive Director of Cambridge University Hospitals.{{cite web|url=http://www.cuh.org.uk/cuh/structure/board_of_directors.html|title=Board of directors - Cambridge University Hospitals|website=www.cuh.org.uk|access-date=14 November 2011|archive-date=5 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105032127/http://www.cuh.org.uk/cuh/structure/board_of_directors.html|url-status=live}}

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci); and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours, "For services to Science.".{{London Gazette |date=30 December 1994 |supp=y |issue=53893 |page=8 }}