EMBL Director General Edith Heard receives the CNRS Gold Medal 2024
The award recognises an outstanding and influential contribution to French research.
EMBL Director General Edith Heard. Credit: Fondation L’Oréal, Creative Team/EMBL
The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, has awarded the CNRS Gold Medal 2024 to EMBL Director General Edith Heard for her outstanding contribution to French research. The award, which Heard will receive during an official ceremony on 12 December in Paris, recognises her work on epigenetics and X-chromosome inactivation.
Heard has spent most of her scientific career in France. She carried out her research at the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS before working in the Institut Curie for 17 years, joining as a group leader in 2001 and then leading the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit. She has also been a professor at the Collège de France since 2012.
The CNRS, a French public research organisation, is one of the world’s leading scientific institutions. Since 1954, the CNRS Gold Medal has been awarded yearly to one or more scientists in recognition of their work.
