He produced a widely reported artificial life computer model which modelled evolution in organisms. He has contributed to more than a dozen books and has edited a book on the genetics of mycobacteria. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals on subjects as wide-ranging as bacterial genetics, tuberculosis, idiopathic diseases and computer modelling of evolution. He went on to work on human genetic diseases and then infectious diseases, at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (1982–84) and St George's Hospital Medical School, London (1984–88) and then at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK.įor more than a decade, McFadden has researched the genetics of microbes such as the agents of tuberculosis and meningitis and invented a test for the diagnosis of meningitis. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry University of London in 1977 and his PhD at Imperial College London in 1982. He holds joint British and Irish Nationality. McFadden was born in Donegal, Ireland but raised in the UK. He is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Johnjoe McFadden (born ) is an Anglo-Irish scientist, academic and writer.
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