Larry Atwood (’86 Ph.D.), West Roxbury, Mass. :: He earned his doctorate in computer science at UNT. Most recently, he was a professor at Boston University and a senior geneticist on the Framingham Heart Study, which he joined in 2001. He was co-chair of the Framingham Genetics Steering Committee, director of the Framingham Genetics Data Management Group and director of the Framingham Genetics Laboratory. He also was co-director of SNP Health Association Resource, a large project to search the genome for variants that affect traits measured on the Framingham participants since 1948. His primary research interest was the genetics of complex diseases, especially obesity. He had previously worked at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio and the Division of Epidemiology and Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.