Michael Lovett

Biography

Professor Michael Lovett holds the Chair of Systems Biology at NHLI Imperial College London. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh in Molecular Biology and his Ph.D., in Biochemistry from Imperial College. He then conducted postdoctoral work in Human Genetics with Professor Charles Epstein at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He was then appointed as an Assistant Professor of Genetics at UCSF. In 1987 he joined Genelabs Inc, a start up biotechnology company, in the San Francisco bay area where he was Senior Director of Molecular Genetics. Shortly after Genelabs went public (IPO) in 1992, Dr. Lovett returned to academia as Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas but also continued to administer a group within biotech for over a year. In 1999 Dr. Lovett and his wife, Anne Bowcock were recruited to head the Division of Human Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. He held the post of Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics and Division Head at Washington University until January 2013. when he returned to the UK and to Imperial College. Professor Lovett developed one of the most innovative and useful gene identification technologies in the human genome project. These methods led to the rapid discovery of many causal mutations in Mendelian disorders. He then moved into the interface between developmental biology, genomics and systems biology where he applied innovative new micro-cDNA and microarray approaches to the investigation of regeneration and species-specific variation.

Research Interest

genomics, computational biology, developmental biology, genetics and neuroscience