Nancy Wexler Biography

Nancy Wexler is the President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Involved in public policy individual counseling genetic research and federal health administration she is most widely known for her important scientific contribution on Huntington's disease. A 20-year study of the world's largest family with Huntington's disease in Venezuela developing a pedigree of over 18000 individuals and collecting over 4000 blood samples helped lead to the identification of the Huntington's disease gene at the tip of human chromosome. One result of this work was the development of a presymptomatic test which could tell who is carrying the fatal gene prior to the onset of symptoms.Wexler received an A.B. from Radcliffe in 1967 and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974. She currently holds or has held numerous public policy positions including Chair of the Joint NIH/DOE Ethical Legal and Social Issues Working Group of the National Center for Human Genome Research Chair of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) and Member of the Institute of Medicine. Wexler has served as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health NIH. She has received numerous honors and awards including several honorary doctorates.

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