Denis Duboule

Swiss-French biologist · Switzerland · On the map · Scientists · Born 1955 · age 71

Denis Duboule 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.

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A life in dates

2013A.O. Kovalevsky MedalAward2012Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2010Honorary Doctorate from ENSAwardPrix International de l’INSERMAward2004Grand Prix Charles-Leopold MayerAward2003Marcel Benoist PrizeAward1998Louis-Jeantet Prize for MedicineAward1997Cloëtta PrizeAward1955Born17 February 1955

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A.O. Kovalevsky Medal2013

Foreign Member of the Royal Society2012

Prix International de l’INSERM2010

Honorary Doctorate from ENS2010

Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer2004

Marcel Benoist Prize2003

Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine1998

Cloëtta Prize1997

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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.

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The same award as Denis

Walter J. GehringBoth received A.O. Kovalevsky Medal

Michael N. HallBoth received Cloëtta Prize Jean-François BorelBoth received Cloëtta Prize

Sean B. CarrollBoth received A.O. Kovalevsky Medal Botond RoskaBoth received Cloëtta Prize

Joachim SeeligBoth received Cloëtta Prize