Veronica van Heyningen

Veronica van Heyningen
Born	November 12, 1946[1]
Fields	Human genetics[2] Developmental biology Cis-regulatory control Phenotype variability PAX6[3][4]
Institutions	University of Edinburgh MRC Human Genetics Unit University College London National Museums Scotland The Genome Analysis Centre[1]
Alma mater	Girton College, Cambridge (BA, MA) Northwestern University (MS) University of Oxford (DPhil)[1]
Thesis	Mitochondrial and other enzymes in somatic cell hybrids (1973)
Doctoral advisor	Walter Bodmer
Notable awards	CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
Spouse	Simon van Heyningen[1]
Website www.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/people/veronica.van.heyningen.html

Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE FRS FMedSci (née Daniel, born 12 November 1946) is a British geneticist who specialises in the etiology of anophthalmia. She was head of medical genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the president of The Genetics Society.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Education

van Heyningen studied Natural Sciences (genetics) at the University of Cambridge, and at Northwestern University. She went to study for a DPhil^[14] at the University of Oxford in early gene mapping studies using somatic cell hybrids, with Walter Bodmer.^[15][16]

Awards and honours

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.^[17]

• 1993-1998 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
• 1999 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• 2007 Fellow of the Royal Society

Personal life

In 1968 she married Simon van Heyningen.^[1] She was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's "The Life Scientific" in 2014.^[18]

References

1. "van HEYNINGEN, Prof. Veronica". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
2. Kleinjan, D. A.; Van Heyningen, V (2005). "Long-range control of gene expression: Emerging mechanisms and disruption in disease". The American Journal of Human Genetics 76 (1): 8–32. doi:10.1086/426833. PMC 1196435. PMID 15549674.
3. Ericson, J; Rashbass, P; Schedl, A; Brenner-Morton, S; Kawakami, A; Van Heyningen, V; Jessell, T. M.; Briscoe, J (1997). "Pax6 controls progenitor cell identity and neuronal fate in response to graded Shh signaling". Cell 90 (1): 169–80. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80323-2. PMID 9230312.
4. Veronica van Heyningen's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
5. "Medical Research Council". Hgu.mrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
6. Hill, R. E.; Favor, J; Hogan, B. L.; Ton, C. C.; Saunders, G. F.; Hanson, I. M.; Prosser, J; Jordan, T; Hastie, N. D.; Van Heyningen, V (1991). "Mouse small eye results from mutations in a paired-like homeobox-containing gene". Nature 354 (6354): 522–5. doi:10.1038/354522a0. PMID 1684639.
7. Pritchard-Jones, K; Fleming, S; Davidson, D; Bickmore, W; Porteous, D; Gosden, C; Bard, J; Buckler, A; Pelletier, J; Housman, D; Van Heyningen, Veronica; Hastie, Nicholas (1990). "The candidate Wilms' tumour gene is involved in genitourinary development". Nature 346 (6280): 194–7. doi:10.1038/346194a0. PMID 2164159.
8. Ton, C. C.; Hirvonen, H; Miwa, H; Weil, M. M.; Monaghan, P; Jordan, T; Van Heyningen, V; Hastie, N. D.; Meijers-Heijboer, H; Drechsler, M (1991). "Positional cloning and characterization of a paired box- and homeobox-containing gene from the aniridia region". Cell 67 (6): 1059–74. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90284-6. PMID 1684738.
9. "Imortalized Cell Lines", Chromosome analysis protocols, Editor John R. Gosden, Humana Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-89603-243-9
10. "Developmental biology", Doctors to the genome: from conception to maturity], Editors Ieuan A. Hughes, Mark Gardiner, Royal College of Physicians, 1998, ISBN 978-1-86016-078-3
11. Long-Range Control of Gene Expression, Editors Veronica Van Heyningen, Robert E. Hill, Academic Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-12-373881-3
12. Veronica van Heyningen's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
13. Veronica van Heyningen on The Life Scientific 2014-04-01
14. van Heyningen, Veronica (1973). Mitochondrial and other Enzymes in Somatic Cell Hybrids (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
15. UK. "Veronica van Heyningen: Former F1000Prime Faculty Member in Medical Genetics - F1000Prime". F1000biology.com. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
16. "Prof Veronica van Heyningen, CBE Authorised Biography – Debrett’s People of Today, Prof Veronica van Heyningen, CBE Profile". Debretts.com. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
17. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59446. p. 8. 12 June 2010.
18. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z9k48