 From 1988 to 1989 and 1991 to 1993, she went to the United States to work as a post-doc in the research centre of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, in the laboratory of Professor Alan Wolffe.She has been a research director at the CNRS since January 2000.In 2013, she took over the direction of research at the Institut Curie and became the third woman to hold this position after Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie.Geneviève Almouzni is also a member of the editorial board of Cell magazine.Her research focuses on cancer prevention, including the role of certain proteins in tumor development.