Marie-Hélène Verlhac is a French cellular biologist, specialising in the final stages of oocyte development.
She was the recipient of the French National Centre for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Silver Medal in 2021.
[4] She undertook postdoctoral studies with Rik Derynck at the University of California, San Francisco.
[1][4][5] Verlhac returned to France and became a principal investigator of her own lab in 2002, which researches oocyte mechanics and morphogenesis.
[1] Oocytes, the female gametes, divide asymmetrically so that maternal stores can be preserved for the embryo's development; Verlhac's lab uses genetics, two-hybrid screening, and live imaging combined with biophysics to study such divisions.