Huda Zoghbi

Professor
Baylor College of Medicine

Huda Zoghbi is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is also director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. Zoghbi explores the biology of genetic disorders such as Rett syndrome, and the genes essential for normal neurodevelopment.

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