Joseph Seth Alper (born 1946) is a former professor of chemistry at the

University of Massachusetts, Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massac ...

. He is known for his work analyzing genetic discrimination and other issues related to

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research. He is a founding member of the Genetic Screening Study Group. He received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1963 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1968. He did his postdoc in the laboratory of Robert Silbey at the

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from 1968 to 1970.

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