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Denis Duboule | |
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 Denis Duboule in 2010 | |
| Born | February 17, 1955 |
| Citizenship | Swiss and French |
| Known for | Work on Hox genes |
| Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1998)[1] Marcel Benoist Prize (2003) Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2004) Fellow of the Royal Society[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Development biology |
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Denis Duboule (born February 17, 1955) is a Swiss-French biologist. He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is the Director of the Swiss National Research Center "Frontiers in Genetics" and since 2017, he is also a professor at the Collège de France. He has notably worked on Hox genes, a group of genes involved in the formation of the body plan and of the limbs.
- ^ Louis-Jeantet Prize
- ^ http://royalsociety.org/people/denis-duboule/ Professor Denis Duboule ForMemRS