Veronica van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen CBE FRS (nee Daniel, born 12 November 1946) is a British geneticist who specialises in the etiology of anophthalmia. She is head of medical genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the current president of The Genetics Society.[1]. In 1968 she married Simon van Heyningen.
She took a first degree in genetics Cambridge University, and DPhil Oxford University in early gene mapping studies using somatic cell hybrids, with Walter Bodmer.[2][3]
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[4]
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Works
- "Imortalized Cell Lines", Chromosome analysis protocols, Editor John R. Gosden, Humana Press, 1994, ISBN 9780896032439
- "Developmental biology", Doctors to the genome: from conception to maturity], Editors Ieuan A. Hughes, Mark Gardiner, Royal College of Physicians, 1998, ISBN 9781860160783
- Long-Range Control of Gene Expression, Editors Veronica Van Heyningen, Robert E. Hill, Academic Press, 2008, ISBN 9780123738813
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