Anderson Lecture 2025 — September 22, 2025

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

Title of Lecture: Molecular and Neurobiological Studies in Rett syndrome and other MECP2 disorders

Dr. Huda Zoghbi is the Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology and Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her laboratory uses genetic, cell biological, and biochemical approaches to explore the pathogenesis of polyglutamine neurodegenerative diseases, and how MECP2 mutations cause postnatal neurodevelopmental disorders, including Rett syndrome and spinocerebellar ataxias. In addition to being a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), she has been awarded the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, the Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Breakthrough Prize, the Brain Prize, Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, and the Ross Prize.

Refreshments to follow the lecture, Medical Education Building, first floor lobby