April 29 – May 2, 2012

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William Newman

William Newman

William Newman

Senior Clinical Lecturer
Genetic Medicine
University of Manchester
St Mary's Hospital
Manchester , M13 9WL
United Kingdom
tel: work 44 161 276 4150
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Bill is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Genetic Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK since 2004.

He studied Medicine at Manchester University and stayed in Manchester to complete professional training in Clinical Genetics undertaking a PhD as a Wellcome Trust Fellow on the genetics of skeletal development. He moved to Toronto to undertake a two year Fellowship with Professor Kathy Siminovitch where he worked on association studies in rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. His research is now primarily focussed on pharmacogenetics, especially in cancer treatment and the role of geneticists in delivering this new clinical discipline.