Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule
professor Denis Duboule after a conference on 16 November 2009 in Lausanne.
Born	1955 Geneva
Citizenship	Swiss and French
Fields	Development biology
Institutions	EPFL, University of Geneva
Known for	Work on Hox genes
Notable awards	Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1998), Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2004)

Denis Duboule (born in Geneva in 1955^[1]) is a Swiss-French biologist. He has notably worked on the Hox genes involved in development of limbs.^[2]

Biography

Duboule obtained a PhD from University of Geneva in 1984.

After questioning Karl Illmensee's claims of having cloned a mouse, Duboule departed to work as a postdoc at the University of Strasbourg, with Pierre Chambon. In 1988, he was made a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

In 1992, he obtained a tenure at Geneva University. From 1997, he has headed the Department of Zoology and Animal Biology.^[2] Since 2001, he has also supervised the Frontiers in Genetics NCCR, and since 2006, he has chaired as a full professor at the EPFL.^[3]

Honours

• Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1998) ^[3]
• Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2004) ^[3]

Notes and references

1. ^ Denis Duboule, EPFL
2. ^ ^{a b} Denis Duboule, The Scientist
3. ^ ^{a b c} Denis Duboule, uni-goettingen.de

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Date of birth	1955
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