Prof. Miriam Moffatt Imperial College London, UK

Miriam F. Moffatt is Professor of Human Genetics at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Miriam Moffatt received her undergraduate training in Microbiology at the University of Reading prior to completing her doctorate in the Genetics of Asthma at the University of Oxford. Together with Professor Bill... read moreCookson she heads the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Section at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. She has been investigating the genetic mechanisms underlying asthma for the past 22 years using candidate gene and positional cloning approaches and most recently genome wide association studies. Most recently she has been conducting investigations into the role of epigenetics in disease causation.