Dr Asifa Akhtar: Asifa Akhtar is a Pakistani biologist who has made significant contributions to the field of chromosome regulation. She is Senior Group Leader and Director of the Department of Chromatin Regulation at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. Akhtar was awarded EMBO membership in 2013.
Born: February 19, 1971, Karachi, Pakistan
Education: University College London
Research interests: Epigenetics, Chromatin Regulation, Transcription, X-chromosome, Long non-coding RNAs
Academic advisor: Richard Treisman
Awards: EMBO Membership
🇩🇪 🇵🇰 Dr Asifa Akhtar has been recognised for her groundbreaking cell-biological work on mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation