Jean-Christophe Marine

Jean-Christophe Marine is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). He is head of the VIB Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Biology. His research interest is in the identification and characterization of cancer growth modulators, such as p53 [Laurie NA, Donovan SL, Shih CS, Zhang J, Mills N, Fuller C, Teunisse A, Lam S, Ramos Y, Mohan A, Johnson D, Wilson M, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Quarto M, Francoz S, Mendrysa SM, Guy RK, Marine JC, Jochemsen AG, Dyer MA, "Inactivation of the p53 pathway in retinoblastoma", "Nature" 61-66, 2006] .

He obtained a PhD from the University of Liège (Liège, Belgium) in 1996. He did a Postdoc at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, USA from 1996 until 1999 and at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan, Italy from 2000 until 2002. He was " _fr. Chercheur Qualifié" of the FNRS, Brussels, Belgium from 2002 until 2004. He is VIB Group leader since 2004 and was EMBO "Young Investigator" in 2006.

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