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Peter Hechtman was an Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics at McGill University. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Charles Scriver. Hechtman was a pioneer researcher on Tay-Sachs disease and was responsible for instigating province-wide genetic screening for the disease. He joined the Medical Group in Medical Genetics in the early 1970s as an expert in molecular and biochemical genetics.
https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/peter-hechtman-1078843471
Canning, Christopher, et al. "Medical genetics at McGill: the history of a pioneering research group." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 30.1 (2013): 31-54.