- Thierry Bogaert
Thierry Bogaert is a Belgian scientist and businessman. He is one of the cofounders of the Belgian biotech company
DevGen .Education
He graduated from the
University of Ghent (Ghent ,Belgium ) and received an MSc degree form theUniversity of Manitoba (Winnipeg ,Canada ). He obtained a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, (Cambridge ,United Kingdom ).Career
As an academic, he held faculty positions at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council (MRC-LMB) in Cambridge and the Medical Faculty of the University of Ghent. His research interest was about
Drosophila melanogaster integrin s [Bogaert T, Brown N, Wilcox M, The Drosophila PS2 antigen is an invertebrate integrin that, like the fibronectin receptor, becomes localized to muscle attachments, Cell. 1987 Dec 24;51(6):929-40] [Leptin M, Bogaert T, Lehmann R, Wilcox M, The function of PS integrins during Drosophila embryogenesis, Cell. 1989 Feb 10;56(3):401-8] and theCaenorhabditis elegans UNC gene ("uncoordinated phenotype") [Stringham E, Pujol N, Vandekerckhove J, Bogaert T, unc-53 controls longitudinal migration in C. elegans, Development. 2002 Jul;129(14):3367-79]In 1997, he founded DevGen and became its
Chief Executive Officer .References
ources
* [http://www.trends.be/nl/4-1370-39825/gents-biotechbedrijf-laat--insecten-zelfmoord-plegen.html Gents biotechbedrijf laat insecten zelfmoord plegen]
* [http://www.wormbase.org/db/misc/person?name=WBPerson72;class=person Thierry Bogaert]
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