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Huda Zoghbi

1954 - Today

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Huda Yahya Zoghbi (Arabic: هدى الهبري الزغبي Hudā al-Hibrī az-Zughbī; born Huda El-Hibri; 20 June 1954) is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience and Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She was the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience from 2018-2024. Her work helped elucidate the genes and genetic mechanisms responsible for a number of devastating neurological disorders, such as Rett syndrome and spinocerebellar ataxia type 1. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Huda Zoghbi is the 1,081st most popular biologist (down from 1,066th in 2024), the 136th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lebanese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Huda Zoghbi ranks 1,081 out of 1,097. Before her are Steve Jones, Jerry Coyne, Joan A. Steitz, Gita Ramjee, Peter Dodson, and Xu Xing. After her are Jill Bolte Taylor, George Don, Ben Barres, Neil Shubin, Suzanne Simard, and Christian Drosten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Huda Zoghbi ranks 699. Before her are Jorge Hernández, Mallika Sarabhai, Amy Heckerling, Beverley Whitfield, Noureddine Kourichi, and Lloyd Blankfein. After her are Gregory C. Johnson, Julio César Jiménez, Ben Barres, Silvia Chivás, Jerry Moran, and Ken Olin.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Huda Zoghbi ranks 137 out of 145. Before her are Hanan al-Shaykh (1945), Cyrine Abdelnour (1977), Nawal Al Zoghbi (1971), Carole Samaha (1972), Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah (1963), Suzanne Tamim (1977), and Michael Malarkey (1983). After her are Mustapha Adib (1972), Peter Deming (1957), Gebran Bassil (1970), Ali Eid (1940), and Aline Lahoud (1981).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Lebanon

Among biologists born in Lebanon, Huda Zoghbi ranks 2. Before her are Ardem Patapoutian (1967).

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