Edith Heard
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Edith Heard (born 1965)[1] FRS MAE[2] is a British-French researcher in epigenetics who has been serving as the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since January 2019.[3][4] She is also Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory.
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Born | (1965-03-05) 5 March 1965 (age 59)[1] |
Nationality | British, French |
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Spouse | Vincent Colot |
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Thesis | Analysis of a gene amplification event in rat cells (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Mike Fried |
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From 2010 to 2018, Heard was the Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology department at the Curie Institute (Paris), France. Heard is noted for her studies of X-chromosome-inactivation.[5][6][7][8][9][10]