Ana Pombo
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, DE
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Biography
Ana Pombo studies 3D genome folding and gene expression in development and disease. After her DPhil at University of Oxford, UK, Ana received a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship and started her independent lab at the MRC London Institute for Medical Sciences. In 2013, she moved to the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany, where she serves as Deputy Director. Ana received the Robert Feulgen Prize in 2007, and was elected member of EMBO in 2018 and the European Academy of Sciences in 2022. She has pioneered Genome Architecture Mapping (GAM) to map 3D genome structure.