Nicholas Hastie

Professor Nicholas Dixon Hastie (born 1947) CBE, FRS, FRSE is a British geneticist, and former Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh.

Education
He attended Colwyn Bay Grammar school (it became Ysgol Eirias in 1967), where he sang in the choral society.

Hastie was educated at the University of Liverpool and the University of Cambridge.

Awards and honours
Hastie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. His nomination reads

Hastie was also a member of the Faculty of 1000.