Huda Zoghbi(1954)
Life SciencesHuda Yahya Zoghbi is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience and Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She was the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience from 2018-2024.
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Career History
Director
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, US
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Houston, US
Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US
Research Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US
Education
Baylor College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular and Human Genetics
1988
Baylor College of Medicine
Resident
Neurology and Pediatric Neurology
1985
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
Pediatric Resident
Pediatrics
1982
Meharry Medical College School of Medicine
MD
1979
American University of Beirut
First year of medical school
1975
American University of Beirut
B.Sc. with distinction in Biology,
1975
Research Funding
Genetic Screens to Identify Targets that Regulate APP
BrightFocus Foundation
Discovery of Parkinson Disease Druggable Targets and Msk1 Inhibitors
UCB
Identifying therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease
JPB Foundation
MOLECULAR STUDIES OF SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIS TYPE I
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Baylor Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Molecular Pathogenesis Studies of Rett Syndrome
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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