Adrian Bird

Sir Professor Adrian P. Bird, PhD, has been a trustee of RSRT since the inception of the organization. He is the world’s leading expert in the gene MECP2, which causes Rett syndrome when mutated. His lab discovered the MECP2 protein in the early 1990s and currently studies the structure and function of the mammalian genome, and in particular the role of DNA methylation, a fundamental mechanism controlling gene expression.