Podcast

Epigenetics and cellular memory

Edith Heard (EN)

Edith Heard was born on March 5th, 1965 in London (United Kingdom) She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in genetics, and then carried out her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London), working on gene amplification in cancer. During her post doc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, she began her work on the epigenetic process of X-chromosome inactivation. Since 2001 she has led the Mammalian Developmental …