McVean completed
postdoctoral research at the
University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, supervised by
Brian and
Deborah Charlesworth. In October 2006, he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. McVean's research focuses on
population genetics, statistics and
evolutionary biology including the
International HapMap Project, recombination rates in the
human genome and the
1000 Genomes Project. McVean developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify
PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene. In 2014, with
Peter Donnelly, McVean co-founded Genomics plc, a genomics analysis company, as a
corporate spin-off of the University of Oxford.
Honours and awards In 2006 McVean was awarded a
Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2010, McVean was awarded the
Francis Crick Medal and delivered that year's lecture entitled "Our genomes, our history". In 2012, he was awarded the
Weldon Memorial Prize. In 2013, he presented a talk TEDxWarwick entitled
A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories. In May 2014, McVean was elected as a member of the
European Molecular Biology Organisation. McVean was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 and a
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). ==References==