Huda zoghbi biography of albert

2013 Dickson Prize Winner

Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, of Molecular and Human Genetics, of Neurology, and of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Biography

Huda Y.

Zoghbi was born and grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She earned her bachelor’s degree in science and entered medical school at the American University of Beirut in 1975, but was displaced by the civil war in Lebanon and sent, along with her brothers, by her family to join relatives in Texas.

Zoghbi earned her MD at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., in 1979. She completed two residencies at Baylor College of Medicine, the first in pediatrics in 1982, and the second in neurology and pediatric neurology in 1985.

Although Zoghbi initially trained to be a clinical pediatric neurologist, she found