Malcolm Ferguson-Smith#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 376 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith passed away February 4, 2026.
Positions Held
- 2002 Founder of the Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics
- 1998 Research Professor in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1987 - 1998 Professor and Head of Pathology at Cambridge University and Director of the East Anglia Regional Genetics Service
- 1973 - 1987 Burton Professor of Medical Genetics, Glasgow University
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromosome sorting
- Molecular cytogenetics
- Chromosome painting
- Gene mapping
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1983 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1988 Makdougall-Brisbane Prize Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1988 Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Foreign member of the National Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires
- Founding editor of Prenatal Diagnosis
