Neil Brockdorff

Neil Alexander Steven Brockdorff (born 1958) is a British biochemist who is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor in the department of biochemistry at the University of Oxford. Brockdorff's research investigates gene and genome regulation in mammalian development.

Education Brockdorff was educated at Hampstead School, the University of Sussex (BSc) and the University of Glasgow (PhD). In earlier work Brockdorff demonstrated that an unusual functional RNA molecule, XIST, controls the X inactivation process. Building on this finding he has elucidated key steps in XIST gene regulation during early development, and has defined major pathways through which XIST RNA induces chromosome wide gene silencing.

Awards and honours Brockdorff is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).