Margaret Buckingham

Professor at the Pasteur Institute, Director of Research in the French C.N.R.S., Member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Margaret Buckingham’s laboratory works on the stem cells of skeletal muscle and how their survival and entry into the myogenic programme are regulated by Pax genes, both in the embryo and the adult. They are also interested in cardiogenesis, notably in the origin and contribution of the second heart field and corresponding second myocardial cell lineage, during the formation of the mammalian heart.