David Jeremy Galton

bmj;386/aug30_3/q1864/FAF1faDavid Galton graduated from University College London with a bachelor of science (first class honours) in 1957, and bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (with honours in medicine) in 1960. After house jobs he moved to the US, first to Bethesda, Maryland, to study at the National Institutes of Health, and then to the New England Medical Center.On returning to the UK he obtained a fellowship at the Hammersmith Hospital to continue his research. He was appointed as consultant physician and senior lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1971 and worked there until his retirement in 2002. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and had sessions at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital.His research focused on molecular genetics and metabolic disease, primarily hyperlipidemia and diabetes, and he was one of the first to use single nucleotide polymorphisms to reveal susceptibility genes that predispose people to develop metabolic disorders,…
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