Richard Alexander Gibbs, , is an Australian geneticist. He is currently the Wofford Cain Chair and Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
In 1996, he founded the
Human Genome Sequencing Center at BCM, which was one of five worldwide sites selected to complete the final phase of the
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...
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Richard A. Gibbs, Ph.D.(Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine)
1950s births
Living people
Australian geneticists
Companions of the Order of Australia
University of Melbourne alumni
Australian expatriates in the United States
Human Genome Project scientists
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
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