Professor Nick Hastie, CBE PhD FRS FRSE FMedSci

Director, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road
Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0) 131 332 2471
Fax: + 44 (0) 131 467 8456
n.hastie@hgu.mrc.ac.uk

Professor Nick Hastie is Director of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh. This is one of the largest MRC establishments and its goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying human genetic disease and normal human biology. Professor Hastie has worked in many areas including gene expression, genome organisation and protein evolution. He has had a long-term interest in human developmental genetics, concentrating on the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumour. Until recently he sat on the MRC MCMB Board and the MRC Strategy Development Group. Professor Hastie sits on the Scientific Executive Board of Cancer Research UK and is Chairperson of a number of Scientific Advisory Boards including that for the Sanger Institute. Professor Hastie was one of the twenty UK International Scholars of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was European Editor of the leading journal Genes & Development for a decade and continues to sit on the Editorial Board of this journal. Professor Hastie was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. In 2006 Professor Hastie was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh and a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List.