Dr. Moshe Szyf is a leading-edge force in the emerging science of Epigenetics. With a Ph.D from the celebrated Hebrew University, a postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, a Professorship at McGill University, and a Chair in Pharmacology at GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Szyf is a “pioneer powerhouse” in the industry.
McGill ranks #1 in Canada, among medical-doctoral universities, and Szyf is keeping the best company among the Hebrew University’s first Board of Governors: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Chaim Weizman.
But Szyf is not known for the company he keeps. Szyf is renowned for three decades of his revolutionary research in genetics, early cancer detection and presenting the first evidence that our genetic makeup is not fixed at birth. Rather, according to Szyf, our genetic code may be changed by a biochemical process called DNA Methylation.