Anne Ferguson-Smith's Biography

Anne Ferguson-Smith, Professor of Developmental Genetics, University of Cambridge

Anne C. Ferguson-Smith is Professor of Developmental Genetics in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at Yale University. For the past two decades, her team has studied genomic imprinting in development and disease and the epigenetic control of genome function in a wider context. Her current research focuses on three themes - Stem cells and the epigenetic programme, Functional epigenomics, and Epigenetics in development environment and disease. She is a Wellcome Senior Investigator, elected member of EMBO and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.