Dr. Claire Rougeulle, Director of the Research Center

Claire Rougeulle’s biography

Claire Rougeulle holds a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Genetics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. After completing her post-doctorate at Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA), she joined the CNRS and worked at Institut Pasteur for 8 years. In 2009, she set up her own Non-coding RNA, differentiation and development research team within the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit (CNRS/Université Paris Cité), of which she was a founding member, and became Deputy Director in 2019. Since 2020, she has been coordinating the Who Am I? laboratory of excellence. 

Her work focuses on the mechanisms at work in X chromosome inactivation, the evolutionary aspects of this process and its consequences in various fields (embryonic development, sexual dimorphisms, the link with certain pathologies such as autoimmunity, etc.). 

Claire Rougeulle is the author or co-author of nearly 70 publications in some of the world's most prestigious journals, including Cell Stem Cell, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology and Molecular Cell. A member of EMBO, she is also involved in a number of learned societies, such as the French Society for Stem Cell Research, and sits on the national and international scientific committees of various institutions and associations, including the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale and the Paris Committee of the Ligue contre le cancer.