[1] She was the discoverer of the Neu-Laxová syndrome, a rare congenital abnormality involving multiple organs, with autosomal recessive inheritance.
[2][3] She was born and educated in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and survived The Holocaust by inclusion in the Kindertransport, and spent the war years in England.
She returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, received a medical degree and training as a pediatrician there.
Her Doctoral thesis from the University of Brno was Genetika isoamylas: Studie nového lidského polymorfismu.
[4] After the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, she escaped a second time to England, where she worked with Lionel Penrose at the Kennedy-Galton Centre for Medical and Community Genetics in London on mental retardation.