Geneviève Almouzni
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Geneviève Almouzni | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie |
| Occupation | Biologist |
Geneviève Almouzni (born 1960) is a French biologist, a specialist in epigenetics and director of the Curie Institute's research centre.[1]
Geneviève Almouzni was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses from 1980 to 1985. In 1988, she defended a thesis in microbiology at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie on the use of a system derived from xenope eggs to study DNA chromatin replication and assembly under the supervision of Marcel Méchali.[2]
From 1988 to 1989 and 1991 to 1993, she went to the United States to work as a post-doc in the research centre of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, in the laboratory of Professor Alan Wolffe.She has been a research director at the CNRS since January 2000.[citation needed]
In 2013, she took over the direction of research at the Institut Curie and became the third woman to hold this position after Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie.[3] She served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2013. She was Chair of EU-LIFE (2018-2019), the alliance of research institutes advocating for excellent research in Europe.[4] Geneviève Almouzni is also a member of the editorial board of Cell magazine.[5]
