Veronica van Heyningen

**Veronica van Heyningen** (née Daniel; born 12 November 1946,  Békéscsaba, Hungary) is an English geneticist who specialises in the etiology of anophthalmia as an honorary professor at University College London (UCL). She previously served as head of medical genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the president of The Genetics Society.  In 2014 she became president of the Galton Institute.  she chairs the diversity committee of the Royal Society, previously chaired by Uta Frith.

An haifi Veronica (Veronika) Daniel a 1946 a Békéscsaba, Hungary . Iyayenta sun tsira daga Holocaust wanda aka tsare su a Sansanin Nazi. An kashe mafi yawan iyalansu a Auschwitz. Mahaifinta injiniyan masana'antu ne wanda ya yi karatu a Jamus kafin Yaƙin Duniya na II, wanda ya ba shi damar yin aiki bayan yaƙin a cibiyar binciken masana'antu a Budapest . 

Wani kawun da ke Burtaniya ya tallafawa, iyalin sun sami damar samun fasfo na baƙi, sun isa Worthing, Sussex, a ranar 30 ga Janairu, 1958. Ba da daɗewa ba suka koma Loughborough, inda mahaifinta ya sami matsayi a matsayin darektan fasaha. Veronica van Heyningen ta yi sharhi cewa waɗannan abubuwan sun sa ta da 'yar'uwarta "sun san cewa ilimi shine babban kayan rayuwa". A shekara ta 1963, da zaran ya yiwu a yi hakan bisa doka, iyalinta sun nemi zama 'yan asalin Burtaniya.

Ta zauna a 20 Valley Road a Loughborough . Ta fara ne a Makarantar Humphrey Perkins Grammar School tun tana 'yar shekara 12, inda ta sami matakan O 11. Ta dauki matakin A-level na Physics, Chemistry da Biology, tana shiga cikin yin iyo, kuma tana cikin ƙungiyar muhawara ta makaranta.

## Ilimi
Veronica ta yi karatun Tripos na Kimiyya na Halitta a Jami'ar Cambridge, kuma ta kasance dalibi a Kwalejin Girton, Cambridge inda ta ƙware a fannin kwayoyin halitta daga 1965 zuwa 1968. A watan Yunin 1968 ta auri Simon van Heyningen, wanda ta sadu da shi lokacin da take daliba a Girton kuma shi dalibi ne na PhD a Kwalejin Sarki. Zaɓin aikinta na gaba ya samo asali ne daga Matsalar jiki biyu.

Ta yi shekaru biyu a Jami'ar Northwestern da ke Evanston, Illinois, inda aka ba ta digiri na Master of Science .  Bayan da farko ta shirya yin aiki a kan PhD tare da Harry Harris a UCL Galton Laboratory a Kwalejin Jami'ar London (UCL), ta koma Oxford inda ta sami damar yin aiki tare da Walter Bodmer, sabon shiga a matsayin Farfesa na Genetics. Tare da Bodmer, van Heyningen ya yi aiki a kan binciken Taswirar kwayar halitta ta farko ta amfani da ƙwayoyin halitta. An goyi bayan ta da tallafin horo na shekaru uku daga Majalisar Binciken Kiwon Lafiya (MRC).  A shekara ta 1973  ta kammala digirin digirin digirinta na Doctor of Philosophy  a Jami'ar Oxford.

## Ayyuka
An ba Van Heyningen lambar yabo ta Beit Memorial Fellowship, wanda ya ba ta damar yin tarayya a Edinburgh tare da Peter Walker a MRC Mammalian Genome Unit (MGU). A watan Yunin 1977, bayan zumunci ya ƙare, ta shiga MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit (CAPCU). Ta sami aiki a can a watan Fabrairun 1981. A shekara ta 1992, Van Heyningen ya sami tallafi a matsayin wani ɓangare na shirin Masanin Bincike na Duniya na Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Howard Hughes (HHMI). Ta zama jagorar abin da daga baya ya zama sananne da Sashen Kiwon Lafiya da Ci Gaban Jiki. Van Heyningen ya yi aiki a CAPCU (daga baya aka kira shi MRC Human Genetics Unit ko MRC HGU) na tsawon shekaru 35, ya yi ritaya a shekarar 2012. [1]

Van Heyningen ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) a 2003 da kuma The Genetics Society daga 2009 zuwa 2012. Van Heyningen ya yi aiki a matsayin memba na Hukumar Kula da Halitta ta Burtaniya . 

Bayan ta yi ritaya a shekarar 2012, Van Heyningen ta koma London. Ita farfesa ce mai daraja (ba mai koyarwa ba) a Cibiyar Ilimin Ilimin Ilimi ta UCL, wacce ke da alaƙa da Kwalejin Jami'ar London da Asibitin ido na Moorfields . Ta ci gaba da yin aiki tare da masu bincike kamar likitan ido Andrew Webster .  A cikin 2013 aikinta ya haifar da zama mai kula da kungiyar agaji ta Aniridia Network ga mutanen da aniridia ta shafa a Burtaniya.

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