Huda Zoghbi

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Full Name	Huda Zoghbi
Occupation	Physician
Date Of Birth	Jun 20, 1954(1954-06-20)
Age	70
Birthplace	Beirut
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Huda Zoghbi Biography

Huda Zoghbi is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on June 20, 1954 in Beirut, United States. Huda Zoghbi was raised in Beirut and was born in Beirut in 1954. In high school, she loved to read works by William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. She also wanted to study literature at university. Because her mother believed that a Middle East woman should choose a career that provides independence and security while still allowing her to write, she decided to study biology instead. Zoghbi was accepted as a major in biological sciences at the American University of Beirut, and she entered the university’s medical school two years later.

Zoghbi worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in pediatric neurology from 1982 to 1985. In 1988, she was appointed assistant professor at Baylor’s Department of Pediatrics. She was promoted successively to professor in 1994 and associate professor in 1991. Zoghbi currently serves as a professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor. She also holds appointments as a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and at the Department of Pediatrics Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience. Endowed Chair, director of Texas Children’s Hospital Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She is also a member the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Baylor and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is also a director of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

In 1983, Zoghbi learnt of Rett syndrome from Bengt Hagberg’s account in Annals of Neurology. The paper allowed Zoghbi to diagnose a five-year-old she treated at Texas Children’s Hospital, and a week later she saw another patient with the same set of symptoms. When she investigated medical records, she found more cases of Rett syndrome that had been misdiagnosed. This sparked her interest in Rett syndrome, at a time when there was no report of the disease in the US. An article she published in 1985 attracted many Rett syndrome patients to Texas Children’s Hospital, giving her access to a large number of cases.

Since most patients of Rett syndrome were girls, and symptoms were very consistent across patients, Zoghbi believed genetics were involved in the disease process. This led her to join Arthur Beaudet’s group in 1985, after finishing her term as a postdoctoral researcher, for training in genetics and molecular biology. Beaudet advised against Rett syndrome as her research project since its mode of inheritance was still not obvious, and recommended a more approachable problem – spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a dominantly inherited neurological disorder. In 1988, Zoghbi left Beaudet’s group and founded her own lab at Baylor. In addition to her research on spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 and Rett syndrome, Zoghbi is participating in a joint research collaboration into CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder, funded by the Loulou Foundation, Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital

Zoghbi and William met while they were both medical students at the American University of Beirut. She continued her medical school studies at Meharry Medical College in 1977. William was transferred to Meharry the following year. Both had their residency at the Baylor College of Medicine following graduation. They were married in 1980, and they have 2 children. William is the chief of Houston Methodist Hospital’s Department of Cardiology.

Huda Zoghbi Net Worth

Huda Zoghbi is one of the richest Physician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Huda Zoghbi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Huda Yahya Zghbi, born Huda El Hibri in 1954, is a Lebanese-American geneticist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine’s Department of Molecular and Human Genetics. Her research helped to unravel mechanisms of spinocerebellar and Rett syndrome. She was the recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award in 2017 and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2017.

In 1976, her first year at medical school was when the Lebanese Civil War started. She and her classmates decided to remain at the university. However, her brother was hurt by shrapnel. Her parents sent them to Austin, Texas to live with their sister. They planned to return the next summer. However, the war raged on and Zoghbi believed that American medical schools started their school terms in October. This was also the case for Lebanese schools. In October it was revealed that Zoghbi was not able to return to Lebanon because of the war. The fall term at US medical schools began 2 months earlier. She was recommended by her American family to Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt would not accept transfer students but suggested Meharry Medical College. Meharry accepted her immediately. On the advice of AUB professors, she decided to stay at Meharry, where she earned an MD degree in 1979. She then joined the Texas Children’s Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine as pediatric resident.

Zoghbi initially intended to specialise in pediatric cardiology, out of an interest in the heart. During her rotation at pediatric neurology, Marvin Fishman, the head of the division, convinced her that the brain was more interesting than the heart. She thus started a 3-year term as a postdoctoral researcher in pediatric neurology after she finished her residency in 1982.

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After linking the gene Ataxin-1 to SCA1, Zoghbi’s lab was approached by Dr. Jaehong Suh of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease to investigate the connection between ataxin-1 gene and Alzheimer’s disease. The subsequent study found that loss of ataxin-1 elevates BACE1 expression and Aβ pathology in mouse models, rendering it a potential contributor to risk and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.

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