John Burn (geneticist)

Sir John Burn FRCP FRCPE FRCOG FRCPCH FMedSci (born 6 February 1952)[1] is a British professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University.[5][6][4][2]

Sir John Burn

FRCP FRCPE FRCOG FRCPCH FMedSci
Born (1952-02-06) 6 February 1952[1]
EducationBarnard Castle Grammar School
Alma materNewcastle University (MB BS, MD)
Known forCentre for Life[2]
Human Variome Project[3]
Spouse(s)
Linda Marjorie Wilson (m. 1972)
[1]
AwardsKnight Bachelor (2010)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsCancer
Genetics[4]
InstitutionsNewcastle University
Great Ormond Street Hospital[5]
Royal Victoria Infirmary[1]
ThesisCardiovascular malformation : an analysis of genetic contribution (1991)
Websitewww.ncl.ac.uk/igm/staff/profile/johnburn.html

Education

Burn was born and raised in North East England. He was educated at Barnard Castle Grammar School, (now Teesdale School)[1] and Newcastle University Medical School from 1976 to 1980 from which he was awarded a Bachelor of Medical Sciences (BMedSci) degree in 1973, a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) in 1976 and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1991.[1][7]

Career and research

Burn has been Professor of Clinical Genetics since 1991 and a consultant specialist since 1984.[8] He is a recognised authority on the genetics of cancer.[2][9][10][11] He led the regional NHS Genetics Service for 20 years and helped to create the Centre for Life which houses an education and science centre alongside the Institute of Genetic Medicine[8] and Northgene Ltd,[12] the identity testing company he launched in 1995. He chairs DNA device company QuantuMDx.[13] He is also a non-executive director of NHS England. He has been newly appointed as Executive Chairman of Global Variome Ltd, a not-for-profit company supporting services to the international coordination work of the Human Variome Project.[3][14]

Awards and honours

In 2010, Burn was appointed Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty for his outstanding services to medicine.[15] He was chosen as one of the first 20 ‘local heroes’ to have a brass plaque on Newcastle Quayside in 2014.[16] He received the Living North award in 2015 for services to the North East 2000 – 2015.[17]

Media interest

He was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific on Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2018.[2]

References
  1. Anon (2017). "Burn, John". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.10000270. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Al-Khalili, Jim (2018). "John Burn and the genetics of cancer". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
  3. Burn, John; Watson, Michael (2016). "The Human Variome Project". Human Mutation. 37 (6): 505–507. doi:10.1002/humu.22986. ISSN 1059-7794. PMID 26987309.
  4. John Burn publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. John Burn in Debretts
  6. Burn, John (2013). "Should we sequence everyone's genome? Yes". BMJ. 346: f3133. doi:10.1136/bmj.f3133. PMID 23694691.
  7. Burn, John (1991). Cardiovascular malformation : an analysis of genetic contribution. copac.jisc.ac.uk (MD thesis). University of Newcastle upon Tyne. OCLC 24724804. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.241347. Archived from the original on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
  8. "Staff Profile - Institute of Genetic Medicine - Newcastle University". www.ncl.ac.uk.
  9. Bertagnolli, Monica M.; Eagle, Craig J.; Zauber, Ann G.; Redston, Mark; Solomon, Scott D.; Kim, KyungMann; Tang, Jie; Rosenstein, Rebecca B.; Wittes, Janet; Corle, Donald; Hess, Timothy M.; Woloj, G. Mabel; Boisserie, Frédéric; Anderson, William F.; Viner, Jaye L.; Bagheri, Donya; Burn, John; Chung, Daniel C.; Dewar, Thomas; Foley, T. Raymond; Hoffman, Neville; Macrae, Finlay; Pruitt, Ronald E.; Saltzman, John R.; Salzberg, Bruce; Sylwestrowicz, Thomas; Gordon, Gary B.; Hawk, Ernest T. (2006). "Celecoxib for the Prevention of Sporadic Colorectal Adenomas". New England Journal of Medicine. 355 (9): 873–884. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa061355. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 16943400.
  10. Dunlop, M. (1997). "Cancer risk associated with germline DNA mismatch repair gene mutations". Human Molecular Genetics. 6 (1): 105–110. doi:10.1093/hmg/6.1.105. ISSN 1460-2083. PMID 9002677.
  11. Burn, John; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Macrae, Finlay; Mecklin, Jukka-Pekka; Moeslein, Gabriela; Olschwang, Sylviane; Eccles, Diane; Evans, D Gareth; Maher, Eamonn R; Bertario, Lucio; Bisgaard, Marie-Luise; Dunlop, Malcolm G; Ho, Judy WC; Hodgson, Shirley V; Lindblom, Annika; Lubinski, Jan; Morrison, Patrick J; Murday, Victoria; Ramesar, Raj; Side, Lucy; Scott, Rodney J; Thomas, Huw JW; Vasen, Hans F; Barker, Gail; Crawford, Gillian; Elliott, Faye; Movahedi, Mohammad; Pylvanainen, Kirsi; Wijnen, Juul T; Fodde, Riccardo; Lynch, Henry T; Mathers, John C; Bishop, D Timothy (2011). "Long-term effect of aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial". The Lancet. 378 (9809): 2081–2087. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61049-0. ISSN 0140-6736. PMC 3243929. PMID 22036019.
  12. "NorthGene – DNA Testing You Can Be Sure Of". NorthGene.
  13. "QuantuMDx - Molecular Diagnostics in Minutes". quantumdx.com.
  14. "Human Variome Project". www.humanvariomeproject.org.
  15. "Knighthood for leading geneticist". 31 December 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  16. "Prof Sir John Burn - NewcastleGateshead". www.newcastlegateshead.com.
  17. "Renowned academic recognised for his contribution to the North East". 7 December 2015. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.



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