Stephan Beck
{{short description|German geneticist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Stephan Beck
| work_institutions = University College London
University of Cambridge
| alma_mater = University of Konstanz
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| Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
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Stephan Beck FMedSci{{Cite web |title=Stephan Beck Profile |url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/fellow/Stephan-Beck-0033z00002qIIeJAAW |website=acmedsci.ac.uk}} is a German-British geneticist and Professor of Medical Genomics at the University College London Cancer Institute.{{Cite journal |title=Stephan Beck Genome Medicine Interview |date=2018 |doi=10.1186/s13073-018-0552-3 |doi-access=free |pmid=29793512 |last1=Beck |first1=S. |journal=Genome Medicine |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=38 |pmc=5968574 }}
Research
Stephan Beck received his PhD in 1985 from the University of Konstanz, where he studied DNA structure.{{Cite journal |title=PhD thesis article |url=https://www.embopress.org/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb02230.x|website=embo.org|doi=10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb02230.x |pmc=557787}} He held positions at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Millipore Corporation in Boston, and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, before joining the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 1996.{{Cite web |title=Stephan Beck Profile |url=https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/1277-stephan-beck |website=UCL}} As Head of Human Sequencing (1998–2006), Beck participated in sequencing and analyzing the human and mouse genomes and established the first DNA methylation maps of human chromosomes 6, 20, and 22.{{Cite journal |title=DNA methylome paper |date=2006 |pmc=3082778 |last1=Eckhardt |first1=F. |last2=Lewin |first2=J. |last3=Cortese |first3=R. |last4=Rakyan |first4=V. K. |last5=Attwood |first5=J. |last6=Burger |first6=M. |last7=Burton |first7=J. |last8=Cox |first8=T. V. |last9=Davies |first9=R. |last10=Down |first10=T. A. |last11=Haefliger |first11=C. |last12=Horton |first12=R. |last13=Howe |first13=K. |last14=Jackson |first14=D. K. |last15=Kunde |first15=J. |last16=Koenig |first16=C. |last17=Liddle |first17=J. |last18=Niblett |first18=D. |last19=Otto |first19=T. |last20=Pettett |first20=R. |last21=Seemann |first21=S. |last22=Thompson |first22=C. |last23=West |first23=T. |last24=Rogers |first24=J. |last25=Olek |first25=A. |last26=Berlin |first26=K. |last27=Beck |first27=S. |journal=Nature Genetics |volume=38 |issue=12 |pages=1378–1385 |doi=10.1038/ng1909 |pmid=17072317 }}
He is the director of the Personal Genome Project UK, and serves on the advisory board of the Human Epigenome Project.{{Cite web |title=IHEC Bioethics Chairs |url=https://ihec-epigenomes.org/about/bioethics |website=IHEC}}{{Cite web |title=Personal Genome Project UK |url=https://www.personalgenomes.org.uk/team/ |website=PGP}} Beck is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.{{Cite web |title=Wolfson Awards UCL |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2010/aug/ucl-scientists-honoured-royal-society-awards |website=UCL}}{{Cite web |title=List of Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences |url=https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows?find=beck&what=all&year=®ion=§ion=&clinical=&gender= |website=acmedsci.ac.uk}}
Beck is the principal investigator of the medical genomics team at the University College London Cancer Institute.{{Cite web |title=Stephan Beck Lab Profile |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cancer/research/department-cancer-biology/medical-genomics-group |website=UCL}}{{Cite web |title=Beck, Stephan |url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=D2eEH-sAAAAJ&hl=en |website=Google scholar}}
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Category:Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Category:University of Konstanz alumni
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)