Moshe Szyf and colleagues have produced findings on how environment affects DNA

McGill University Professor Dr. Moshe Szyf, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, has received Radio-Canada’s Scientist of the Year 2009 title for his pioneering work into how our environment can alter the way our DNA expresses genes.

The award has been bestowed upon Szyf, along with Drs. Michael Meaney and Gustavo Turecki, both from the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and Professors of Psychiatry at McGill, for their collective contribution to the field of epigenetics.

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