Professor Norman Nevin OBE, president of the Centre for Intelligent Design (C4ID), died on June 28, 2014.
He was born in Belfast in 1935 and studied medicine at the Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB). After graduating in 1957, he took a series of appointments in the Royal Victoria Hospital and QUB. In 1965 he was appointed to a Medical Research Council Clinical Fellowship at the Clinical Genetics Research Unit at the Institute of Child Health in London and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Here he was to develop a lifelong interest and expertise in the field of genetics which was at that time a fledgling discipline.
His expertise and scholarship in genetics resulted in him serving on a number of national and international committees. These included the UK Government’s Gene Therapy Advisory Committee which he chaired from 1996 to 2006. In recognition of his work he was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for Services to Gene Therapy Research.
