A geneticist in the House
Julian Huppert admits that he feels the weight of expectation placed on him by a scientific community desperate for advocates in the new UK Parliament. The election in May of Dr Huppert, a University of Cambridge geneticist, was one of the few bright spots for science in a general election that saw many of its previous champions either retire or lose their seats. The Liberal Democrat is one of only two members of this Parliament with a science doctorate (the other is Therese Coffey, the Conservative member for Suffolk Coastal, who has a chemistry PhD) and the only one to have worked as a researcher
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