Anneke Lucassen is Professor of Clinical Genetics within Medicine at the University of Southampton and combines key clinical, laboratory and ethico-legal expertise to research developments in genetic medicine and to effect improved delivery of genomic services to individuals and families.

Anneke did her higher medical training in Oxford before doing a PhD in the molecular genetics of multifactorial disease at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (Oxford). She specialised in Clinical Genetics, was appointed to Consultant in Oxford in 1997 and became Professor of Clinical Genetics in Southampton in 2007. She has integrated her molecular research experience (PhD in the molecular genetics of multifactorial disease, Oxford) and 20+ years of busy clinical practice, to examine the problems of translating an exponentially increasing amount of detailed molecular genetic information to useful clinical information.  Her particular interest is the ethico-legal aspects raised by new genomic technologies. In 2001 she co-founded the UK Genethics Group which is a national forum for the analysis of ethico-legal issues arising in genetic practice, which has held nearly 50 national meetings to date. She co-leads the Clinical Ethics and Law unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Southampton