Edith Heard#
| Membership Number: | 3203 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/edith-heard |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2025 Chief Executive Officer, The Francis Crick Institute
- 2019 - 2025 Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- Since April 2012 Professor and Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory at the Collège de France (France)
- 2010 - 2018 Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology department at the Curie Institute (Paris), France
- 2008 - 2010 Co-Director with Prof. Spyros Artavanis Tsakonas, of the “Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit” UMR 3215-U934, Curie Institute, Paris, France
- 2006 - 2008 Senior Group Leader, Mammalian Developmental Epigenetics team, UMR218, Curie Institute, Paris (France), Unit of Dr. G. Almouzni
- 2001 - 2006 CNRS ATIPE / Junior Group leader, UMR218, Curie Institute, Paris (France). Unit of Dr. G. Almouzni
- 2000 - 2001 Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY, USA), Lab. of Dr. D. Spector
- 1993 - 2000 Senior research scientist, CNRS, URA 1947, Pasteur Institute, Paris (France), Lab. of Dr. P. Avner
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow (HFSP and Wellcome Trust funding), URA 1968, Pasteur Institute, Paris (France), Lab. of Dr. P. Avner
- 1986 - 1990 PhD thesis, (ICRF Bursary Award) Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, (UK), Lab. of Dr. M. Fried
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA
- Nuclear organisation
- Developmental Biology
- Epigenetics
- Chromatin
- Genetics
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2025 Birthday Honours
- 2024 CNRS Gold Meda
- 2024 Croonian Medal and Lecture, Royal Society
- 2022 Richard Benz Medal for Art and Sciences of the city of Heidelberg
- 2019 Hansen Family Award
- 2019 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
- 2017 Inserm Grand Prix
- 2012 Suffrage Science award
- 2011 Grand Prix de la Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale
- 2010 ERC Advanced Investigator Award
- 2009 Prix Jean Hamburger de la Ville de Paris
- 2008 CNRS Silver Medal (“Medaille d’Argent” du CNRS)
- 2007 The “Otto Mangold” prize, German Society for Developmental Biology
- 2005 First prize of the "Fondation Schlumberger pour l’Education et la Recherche"
- 2005 Elected as EMBO member
- 2004 Elected as New Emerging Team (NET) by the EU Epigenome Network of Excellence
- 2001 CNRS ATIPE Award to launch junior group
- 1986 Thoday Prize in Genetics (Cambridge University, England)
- 1986 Emmanuel College Prize (Cambridge University, England)
- 1986 Emmanuel College Scholarship (Cambridge University, England)
- Memberships
- 2021 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2021 International Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- 2022 Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2022 Member of the Pontifical Academy of Science
- 2022 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2022 Elected to the French Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Fellow of the Royal Society
