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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Remembering Steve Warren (1953-2021): A giant in the field of genetics

By Joseph Cubells, Evan Eichler, James Sutcliffe, Huda Zoghbi
6 September 2021 | 11 min read
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Questions for Huda Zoghbi: Studying Rett in the rodent brain

By Jessica Wright
14 March 2017 | 6 min read

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