work_institution birth_place field known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
institute the london , queen mary 's school of medicine and of dentistry cell and molecular science , barts and johannesburg , south africa human genetics cancer genetics , genome biology london , united kingdom denise sheer
 denise sheer university of oxford
denise sheer

denise sheer was appointed professor of human genetics at the institute of cell and molecular science at queen mary , university of london in november 2006 .
after completing a b.sc -lrb- hons -rrb- degree at the university of the witwatersrand , johannesburgin 1973 , she ran the diagnostic cytogenetics laboratory at the south african institute of medical research for two years .
she then moved to the university of oxford , where she was awarded a d.phil in 1980 .
from 1983 - 2006 she was head of the human cytogenetics laboratory at the imperial cancer research fund , now the cancer research uk london research institute .
