Edith Heard, Ph.D.

Professor Edith Heard, a geneticist, is director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and is Professor of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory at the College de France and. Before joining the EMBL she was director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Department at the Institut Curie, Paris. She did her undergraduate work at Cambridge University and earned her Ph.D. at the ICRF (London). During her post-doc at …