Veronica van Heyningen

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Veronica van Heyningen
Born (1946-11-12) November 12, 1946 (age 77)[1]
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Thesis Mitochondrial and other enzymes in somatic cell hybrids (1973)
Doctoral advisor Walter Bodmer[citation needed]
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Spouse Simon van Heyningen[1]
Website
www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/veronica.van.heyningen.html

Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE FRS FMedSci (née Daniel, born 12 November 1946) is a British geneticist who specialises in the etiology of anophthalmia. She was head of medical genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the president of The Genetics Society.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Education

van Heyningen studied Natural Sciences (genetics) at the University of Cambridge, and at Northwestern University. She went to study for a DPhil[14] at the University of Oxford in early gene mapping studies using somatic cell hybrids, with Walter Bodmer.[15][16]

Awards and honours

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[17]

Personal life

In 1968 she married Simon van Heyningen.[1] She was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's "The Life Scientific" in 2014.[18]

References

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  9. ↑ "Imortalized Cell Lines", Chromosome analysis protocols, Editor John R. Gosden, Humana Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-89603-243-9
  10. ↑ "Developmental biology", Doctors to the genome: from conception to maturity], Editors Ieuan A. Hughes, Mark Gardiner, Royal College of Physicians, 1998, ISBN 978-1-86016-078-3
  11. ↑ Long-Range Control of Gene Expression, Editors Veronica Van Heyningen, Robert E. Hill, Academic Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-12-373881-3
  12. ↑ Veronica van Heyningen's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  13. ↑ Veronica van Heyningen on The Life Scientific 2014-04-01
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  17. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59446. p. 8. 12 June 2010.
  18. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9k48


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