Genetic Effects on Environmental Vulnerability to Disease

Prof Sir Michael Rutter, King's College, London, UK
Prof Rutter is the leading child psychiatrist in the UK. He set up the MRC Child Psychiatry Research Unit and the Institute of Psychiatry's Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. He was Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust from 1999 to 2004, and has been a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation since 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and an honorary member of the British Academy in 2002.?He was a Founding Fellow of the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Medical Sciences, of which he is currently Clinical Vice-President.
He has published extensively.