Mali RPCV Joseph Hall Wilson marries in British Columbia
Dean Hamer, Joseph Wilson
Published: April 11, 2004
Dr. Dean Heilman Hamer and Joseph Hall Wilson were married yesterday. Johanna Hickey, a marriage commissioner in British Columbia, Canada, officiated at Stanley Park, a public park in Vancouver.
Dr. Hamer, 53, is the chief of the gene structure and regulation section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., where his research focuses on developing new treatments for H.I.V. and AIDS. He is also an author whose books include "Living With Our Genes" (Doubleday, 1998); in 1993, he published evidence suggesting a genetic predisposition for male homosexuality. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford and received a doctorate in biological chemistry from Harvard. Dr. Hamer is the son of Warren G. Hamer of Southampton, N.Y., and the late Marilou Heilman Hamer. His mother retired as an art dealer and the owner of the Discovery Gallery in Montclair, N.J. His father, who is retired, was an underwriter for First Boston in New York. Dr. Hamer is the stepson of Marilyn Hamer.
Mr. Wilson, 40, is the program officer for human rights and global security at the Public Welfare Foundation, an organization in Washington that provides financial support to communities in the United States and elsewhere seeking to improve their economic and social well-being. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and worked on health and sanitation issues in Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1988 to 1990. He is a son of Antoinette Lillian Hall Wilson of State College, Pa., and the late Robert C. Wilson. His mother retired as a private nurse in Oil City, Pa. His father had been a mechanic at Lockhart-Pennzoil, a garage in Oil City.
