Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Am J Med Genet A. 2021 Nov;185(11):3193-3201. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62451. Epub 2021 Aug 31.
Victor Almon McKusick (VAM) is widely recognized as the father of the field of medical genetics. He established one of the first medical genetics clinics in the United States at Johns Hopkins in 1957 and developed a robust training program with the tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care. Thousands of clinicians and scientists were educated over the years through the Short Course in Medical and Molecular Genetics, which VAM founded with Dr. Thomas Roderick in 1960. His Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, serves as the authoritative reference for geneticists around the globe. Throughout his career he was an advocate for mapping the human genome. He collaborated with Dr. Frank Ruddle in founding the International Human Gene Mapping Workshops in the early 70's and was an avid proponent of the Human Genome Project. He was the founding President of the Human Genome Organization and a founding editor of the journal Genomics. His prodigious contributions to the field of medical genetics were recognized by multiple honors, culminating with the Japan Prize in 2008.
Victor Almon McKusick（VAM）被广泛认为是医学遗传学领域的奠基人。他于 1957 年在美国约翰霍普金斯大学建立了美国最早的医学遗传学诊所之一，并制定了一项强大的培训计划，其使命是教育、研究和临床护理三管齐下。多年来，通过 VAM 与 Thomas Roderick 博士于 1960 年创立的医学和分子遗传学短期课程，数以千计的临床医生和科学家接受了培训。他的在线孟德尔遗传数据库（OMIM）是人类基因和遗传疾病的目录，是全球遗传学家的权威参考。在他的整个职业生涯中，他一直倡导绘制人类基因组图谱。他与 Frank Ruddle 博士合作，于 70 年代初创立了国际人类基因图谱研讨会，并积极支持人类基因组计划。他是人类基因组组织的创始主席和基因组学杂志的创始编辑。他对医学遗传学领域的巨大贡献获得了多项荣誉，其中包括 2008 年的日本奖。
