Professor Geoff Woods
Professor of Human Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical research (CIMR), University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Clinical Genetics, Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
United Kingdom
Areas of expertise
- Pediatric Neurology genetics
- Neurodevelopment disorders & Mendelian diseases
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Adult and pediatric Pain and Pain Genetics
- Ophthalmic genetics
- Molecular genetic interpretation
- Human disease phenotypes and genotypes
- Microcephaly
About the expert
Dr. Geoff Woods is a Professor of Human Genetics at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, where he also serves as Principal Investigator. He is also an Honorary Consultant Clinical Geneticist at the Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Dr. Woods has extensive experience in clinical genetics, with a particular focus on neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disorders of childhood. He runs a general regional Clinical Genetics service and specialist clinics for Ophthalmic genetics, Pediatric Neurology genetics, and a national Congenital insensitivity to pain service. He has contributed to up to 250 publications and research papers.
Dr. Geoff Woods is a Professor of Human Genetics at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, where he also serves as Principal Investigator. He is also an Honorary Consultant Clinical Geneticist at the Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Dr. Woods has extensive experience in clinical genetics, with a particular focus on neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disorders of childhood. He runs a general regional Clinical Genetics service and specialist clinics for Ophthalmic genetics, Pediatric Neurology genetics, and a national Congenital insensitivity to pain service. He has contributed to up to 250 publications and research papers.
Dr. Woods' research is centered on Mendelian diseases of neurodevelopment, with a specific focus on pain perception phenotype/genotype/biology/therapeutics. His team is highly collaborative both within and beyond Cambridge, and they use Clinical Genetics and Molecular Genetics to understand rare Mendelian disorders of painlessness and identify the genetic forms of pain disorders. They also focus on other rare human genetic phenotypes such as local anesthetic insensitivity, severe early-onset encephalopathy, complete failure of breast development, and primary microcephaly (MCPH).
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Professor of Human Genetics and Principal Investigator
2011 - TodaySchool of Clinical Medicine in the Cambridge Institute for Medical research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, UK
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Honorary Consultant Clinical Genetics,
2011 - TodayDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Clinical Lead of NHS Department of Clinical Genetics
2009 - 2011Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Lecturer, then Reader, in Medical Genetics
2005 - 2011School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Consultant Clinical Genetics
2005 - 2011Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
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Wellcome Trust Research Leave for Clinical Academics Fellow
2000 - 2004MMU, University of Leeds
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Consultant Clinical Geneticist
1995 - 2004Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds
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Consultant Clinical Geneticist
1993 - 1994Murdoch Institute for Birth Defects, Melbourne Children’s Hospital, Australia
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MB ChB
University of Birmingham, UK
1981
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MRCP (Paediatrics)
1985
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MD
University of Birmingham: UK
1989
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FRCP
2000
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FMedSci
2013
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