Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon ( born February 7, 1931 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin ) is a French geneticist.
Chambon studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He was the long-time director ( and founder ) of the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire ( IGBMC ) of the University of Strasbourg, Illkirch- Graffenstaden and with Jean -Pierre Ebel, founder of the École supérieure de biotechnology de Strasbourg ( ESBS ). He is a member of the Académie des sciences, and now teaches at the Collège de France in Paris. He is Director of the Institute clinique de la souris (ICS ).
His investigations of proteins that are involved in the translation of genetic information by intracellular messengers that are considered important for the cell and tumor biology. He was from the 1970s, one of the pioneers in the application of modern genetic engineering techniques in the study of gene regulation in eukaryotic cells. He identified RNA polymerase II (B ), different transcriptional control elements and cloned and examined the function of nuclear receptors for hormones. By Ronald M. Evans, he discovered the receptor for retinoic acid in the cell with applications in cancer research and developmental biology.
Awards, Honors, Memberships
Pierre Chambon is a member ( Fellow ) of the following scientific associations and organizations: New York Academy of Sciences ( Fellow since 1996), American Association for the Advancement of Science ( Fellow since 1995), Chinese Society of Genetics, Academia Europaea, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Academie Royale de Medicine of Belgium, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA), Academie des Sciences ( Paris), the Academie Royale des Sciences of Liege, European Molecular Biology Organization, National Academy of Sciences (USA), euro Life Network, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology Strasbourg.
He was editor of Genes and Development, Cell, Current Opinion in Endocrinology, The Breast, International Journal of Cancer, Biochimie, Molecular Medicine, Biological Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, FASEB Journal, Molecular Cell, Genome Biology, IUBMB Life.
In 1991 he became senior member of the Institut universitaire de France.