| Nationality: | United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Molecular geneticist |
Dr. Rob Elles (born 1951) is a British molecular geneticist.
Early in his career, Elles was a research technician at St Mary's London. He obtained a position at Manchester University in 1983, working on development of the molecular diagnostics laboratory at the same time as undertaking a PhD. He rose to be Clinical Director of Genetic Medicine at Manchester, retiring in 2013.[1]
In the 1990s he served as Secretary of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Society, and as co-chair of the expert group developing the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines for quality assurance in molecular Genetic Testing.
He was chair of the British Society for Human Genetics from 2007 to 2009,[2] and as such gave evidence to the House of Lords enquiry on Genomic Medicine.