Kathy Niakan

Kathy Niakan is a prominent professor of the physiology of reproduction and the director of the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research at the University of Cambridge. She is known for her groundbreaking research in gene editing, particularly her recent work utilizing base editing techniques to explore the role of the NANOG gene in human embryo development. Her findings are significant in the ongoing debate about the ethical and scientific implications of gene editing in embryos.