Epigenetics - the Missing Link between Nature and Nuture

Speaker - Dr Nessa Carey

Dr Nessa Carey has a degree in Immunology, a PhD in Virology and was a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College until 2001 when she left academia to work in the biotech sector.  After 10 years in biotech, 7 of which were spent in drug discovery in epigenetics, she joined Pfizer.  At Pfizer, her role involves finding biotech and academic collaborators for epigenetic drug discovery.

Nessa is the author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance, a popular science book published in 2011.

Wine reception to follow.