Douglas Higgs is a principal researcher at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

. He is currently working in understanding the mechanisms by which any mammalian gene is switched on and off during differentiation and development.

Higgs is a Senior Kurti Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College, Oxford

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. He qualified in Medicine at King's College Hospital

King's College Hospital

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 Medical School in 1974, and trained as a haematologist. He joined the Molecular Haematology Unit of the Medical Research Council

Medical Research Council (UK)

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 at Oxford in 1977 and is currently Ad Hominem Professor of Molecular Haematology, and Director of the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit.