X-Chromosome Inactivation and Its Implications for Female Development and Disease

We are pleased to invite you to our next Medicine as a Science lecture featuring Prof. Edith Heard. Professor Heard currently serves as CEO of the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK, as well as a Professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France. With over 40,000 citations, she ranks among the world’s leading scientists in epigenetics. Her research focuses on X-chromosome inactivation and how genes are regulated in early development.