The Collège de France is delighted to announce that Edith Heard has been awarded the 2020 L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science in Europe.
Professor Edith Heard, holder of the Epigenetics and Cellular Memory Chair, has been awarded the 2020 L'Oréal-UNESCO International Prize for Women in Science for Europe. She is being honored for her fundamental discoveries into the mechanisms governing epigenetic processes, enabling mammals to regulate the correct expression of genes essential to life.
The other winners of the 2020 edition of the prize are Professors Abla Mehio Sibai (Africa and Arab States), Firdausi Qadri (Asia-Pacific), Esperanza Martínez-Romero (Latin America) and Kristi Anseth (North America).
Each year, the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award honors outstanding women scientists from different parts of the world for the excellence of their work in the life sciences: biotechnology, ecology, epigenetics, epidemiology and infectiology.
