CLAIRE ROUGEULLE

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.

Winner of the CNRS bronze and silver medals, as well as numerous awards including the Jean-Pierre Lecocq prize from the Académie des Sciences and the Antoine Lacassagne prize from the Collège de France, she has also received an ERC Starting Grant and is currently funded by an ERC Advanced Grant from the prestigious European Research Council. Claire Rougeulle has also been named Knight in the National Order of Merit in 2021.