Vassilis Pachnis

Vassilis Pachnis
FRS FMedSci
Education University of Athens
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Awards EMBO Member (2007)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions Francis Crick Institute
Columbia University
Thesis Identification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes (1987)
Doctoral advisor Shirley M. Tilghman
Other academic advisors Richard Axel
Website www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-p-s/vassilis-pachnis/

Vassilis Pachnis FRS FMedSci[2] is a Senior Group Leader in the Development and Homeostasis of the Nervous System Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.[3]

Education

Pachnis was born and raised in Greece. He graduated from the University of Athens in 1980 where he studied Medicine.[2] From 1980 until 1986 he worked for his PhD in the laboratory of Shirley Tilghman at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox Chase Cancer Center where his research identified and characterised the H19 gene.[4][5]

Career and research

From 1986 until 1991 he did postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Richard Axel and Frank Costantini at Columbia University.[2] In 1991 he moved to the UK and since then has been a research group leader, first at the Medical Research Council (MRC) National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) and subsequently at the Francis Crick Institute.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Find people in the EMBO Communities". people.embo.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2018). "Dr Vassilis Pachnis FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  3. ↑ "Vassilis Pachnis - The Francis Crick Institute".
  4. ↑ Pachnis, Vassilis (1987). Identification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes. repository.upenn.edu (PhD thesis). OCLC 244944581.
  5. ↑ Pachnis, V.; Belayew, A.; Tilghman, S. M. (1984). "Locus unlinked to alpha-fetoprotein under the control of the murine raf and Rif genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81 (17): 5523–5527. doi:10.1073/pnas.81.17.5523. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 391738. PMID 6206499.

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