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Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships, University of Cambridge
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Member, CSaP Advisory Council
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith is the Executive Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships at the University of Cambridge. She is also the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge and President of the Genetics Society. She is a Fellow of Darwin College. Previously, she was the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships.
Professor Ferguson-Smith is a mammalian developmental geneticist and epigeneticist. Her team studies the epigenetic control of genome function with particular emphasis on epigenetic inheritance and she is an expert on genomic imprinting.
She was elected to EMBO in 2006, to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the Society of Biology in 2012 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017. She has received several awards; most recently in 2021 she was recipient of the Royal Society's Buchanan Medal and the Society for Reproduction and Fertility's Anne McLaren Distinguished Scientist Award. In 2022 she was awarded the Mabel FitzGerald Prize Medal.
