Edith Heard

Edith Heard (born March 5, 1965 in London ) is a British geneticist . She is primarily concerned with the role of epigenetics in the development of mammals .

Life

Heard studied natural sciences ( Tripos , Bachelor 1986) at the University of Cambridge and obtained a Ph.D. in 1990 from M. Fried at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. in genetics. As a postdoc , she worked with P. Avner at the Pasteur Institute in Paris , where she also got her first permanent position. After a year of research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ( New York ), Heard founded his own research group at the Institut Curie in Paris in 2001 . In 2010 she became director of the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology there . In 2012 she also received a professorship for epigenetics and cellular memory at the Collège de France . Heard has been Director General of EMBL ( European Molecular Biology Laboratory ) in Heidelberg since January 2019 .

Edith Heard made significant contributions to the role of epigenetics in the (normal) development of mammals. She uncovered the molecular mechanism of X chromosome inactivation (Xist-RNA), was able to show that this mechanism can differ significantly in different mammals, and was involved in the discovery of the topologically associating domains (TAD). More recent work deals with the question of how the organization of chromatin and chromosomes are involved in gene regulation .

According to the Scopus database , Heard has an h-index of 60 (as of February 2020).

Awards (selection)

2005 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
2008 silver medal from the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
2012 member of the Academia Europaea
2013 Fellow of the Royal Society
2015 Knight of the Legion of Honor
2017 Grand Prix INSERM
2017 ESHG Award from the European Society of Human Genetics
2019 Hansen Family Prize
2020 UNESCO L'Oréal Prize

Web links

Edith Heard - Director General and Heard Group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (embl.de)

Edith Heard in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

CV (PDF; 175 kB; status 2014) at Academia Europaea (ae-info.org)

Individual evidence

↑ Heard, Edith. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed February 6, 2020 .
↑ Edith Heard. In: embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization , accessed on August 21, 2019 .
↑ Edith Heard. In: ae-info.org. Academia Europaea , accessed on August 21, 2019 .
↑ Edith Heard. In: royalsociety.org. Royal Society , accessed August 21, 2019 .
↑ Décret du 3 avril 2015 portant nomination . April 3, 2015 ( gouv.fr [accessed August 21, 2019]).
↑ Edith Heard, Grand Prix Inserm 2017. In: inserm.fr. INSERM , accessed on August 21, 2019 (French).
↑ ESHG Award Laureates. In: eshg.org. European Society of Human Genetics , accessed on August 21, 2019 .
↑ Katharina Jansen: The Hansen Family Prize 2019 goes to Prof. Edith Heard. Bayer AG, press release of July 3, 2019 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on August 21, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Heard, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	London

[1] Heard, Edith. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed February 6, 2020 .

[2] Edith Heard. In: embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization , accessed on August 21, 2019 .

[3] Edith Heard. In: ae-info.org. Academia Europaea , accessed on August 21, 2019 .

[4] Edith Heard. In: royalsociety.org. Royal Society , accessed August 21, 2019 .

[5] Décret du 3 avril 2015 portant nomination . April 3, 2015 ( gouv.fr [accessed August 21, 2019]).

[6] Edith Heard, Grand Prix Inserm 2017. In: inserm.fr. INSERM , accessed on August 21, 2019 (French).

[7] ESHG Award Laureates. In: eshg.org. European Society of Human Genetics , accessed on August 21, 2019 .

[8] Katharina Jansen: The Hansen Family Prize 2019 goes to Prof. Edith Heard. Bayer AG, press release of July 3, 2019 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on August 21, 2019.