Marysia Placzek
Marysia Placzek is a Wellcome Trust Investigator and Professor of Developmental Neurobiology in the Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield.
In 2012, Placzek was one of ten women to receive a Suffrage Science award from the Medical Research Council London Institute of Medical Sciences.
Placzek has served as the Chair of the Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group: Cell and Developmental Biology, and as a Scientific Advisory Board member for . She has also served on the Molecules, Genes and Cells Funding Committee for the Wellcome Trust.
Placzek's work focuses on vertebrate hypothalamus