Margaret Buckingham, ForMemRS (born 2 March 1945) is a British developmental biologist working in the fields of myogenesis and cardiogenesis.
She is an honorary professor at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and emeritus director in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
She is an honorary professor at the Pasteur Institute and emeritus director in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
[7][circular reference] She has French and British nationality, and is married to Richard Buckingham, Editor-in-Chief of Biochimie until December 2020, with three children.
Margaret Buckingham is a developmental biologist who is interested in how naïve multipotent cells acquire tissue specificity during embryogenesis.
[11] From genetic screens, they identified other Pax3 targets, demonstrating the central role of Pax3 in the gene regulatory network that leads to the onset of myogenesis in the embryo.