Alan Eglin Heathcote Emery FRCP, FRCPE, , FLS, FRSA, FRSE (born 1928) is a British medical geneticist, known for his study of muscular dystrophy.
Emery began his working life in the King's Hussars,[1] and graduated in biological sciences from University of Manchester.
[1] Having established the European Neuromuscular Centre, he was its chief scientific advisor from 1999.
[1] He was the first president of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Section of Medical Genetics, which he established, from 2001 to 2004.
[1] Both Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and its defective protein product, emerin, are named after him (the former jointly with Fritz E.