Prof. Edwin Kirk
Clinical Geneticist, Sydney Children's Hospital
Genetic Pathologist, NSW Health Pathology's Randwick Genomics Laboratory
Conjoint Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Edwin Kirk is a clinical geneticist at Sydney Children's Hospital and a genetic pathologist at NSW Health Pathology's Randwick Genomics Laboratory; he is a Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales.
His research interests include reproductive genetic carrier screening, diagnostic applications of massively parallel sequencing, gene-phenotype relationships and the penetrance of copy number variants. He was co-lead of the Australian national carrier screening project, Mackenzie's Mission.
His popular science book The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories From a Revolution in Medicine (published in some countries as The Boy Who Wasn't Short) won the 2022 BMA Book Award for Popular Medicine. He is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), awarded in 2023 for contributions to clinical genetics, to genetic pathology and to medical research.