!!!Edith Heard
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*Since January 2019 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
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*2024 Croonian Medal and Lecture, Royal Society
*2022 Richard Benz Medal for Art and Sciences of the city of Heidelberg
*2022 Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
*2022 Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters
*2022 Member of the French Academy of Sciences
*2021 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
*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
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Heard_Edith/CV]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Heard_Edith/Highlight]
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