Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff | |
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Neil Brockdorff at the Royal Society in London, July 2018 | |
| Born | Neil Alexander Steven Brockdorff 1958 (age 67–68) |
| Education | Hampstead School |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex (BSc) University of Glasgow (PhD) |
| Awards | EMBO Member (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental epigenetics X inactivation |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The effect of oestradiol-17β on the ribonucleases and ribonuclease inhibitor of immature rat uterus (1985) |
| Website | www |
Neil Alexander Steven Brockdorff (born 1958) is a British biochemist who is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor in the department of biochemistry at the University of Oxford. Brockdorff's research investigates gene and genome regulation in mammalian development. His interests are in the molecular basis of X-inactivation, the process that evolved in mammals to equalise X chromosome gene expression levels in XX females relative to XY males.