Vassilis Pachnis

FRS FMedSci
Vassilis Pachnis at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Greek: Βασίλης Πάχνης[3]
EducationUniversity of Athens
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
AwardsEMBO Member (2007)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsFrancis Crick Institute
Columbia University[2]
ThesisIdentification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes (1987)
Doctoral advisorShirley M. Tilghman
Other academic advisorsRichard Axel
Websitewww.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/vassilis-pachnis

Vassilis Pachnis Greek: Βασίλης Πάχνης FRS FMedSci[4] is a Senior Group Leader in the Development and Homeostasis of the Nervous System Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.[5][6][7]

Education

Pachnis was born and raised in Greece. He graduated from the University of Athens in 1980 where he studied Medicine.[4] 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.[8][9]

Career and research

From 1986 until 1991 he did postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Richard Axel and Frank Costantini at Columbia University.[2][4] 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.

Awards and honours

Pachnis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018[4] and awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2007.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Anon (2007). "EMBO MEMBER: Vassilis Pachnis". People.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
  2. ^ a b Schuchardt, Anita; D'Agati, Vivette; Larsson-Blomberg, Lena; Costantini, Frank; Pachnis, Vassilis (1994). "Defects in the kidney and enteric nervous system of mice lacking the tyrosine kinase receptor Ret". Nature. 367 (6461): 380–383. Bibcode:1994Natur.367..380S. doi:10.1038/367380a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 8114940. S2CID 4234902. Closed access icon
  3. ^ "Βασίλης Πάχνης: Ελληνας ερευνητής εξελέγη μέλος της Βασιλικής Εταιρείας Επιστημών της Βρετανίας [εικόνα]". Iefimerida.gr. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d 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.
  5. ^ "Vassilis Pachnis - The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk.
  6. ^ Vassilis Pachnis ORCID 0000-0001-9733-7686
  7. ^ Vassilis Pachnis publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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. Bibcode:1984PNAS...81.5523P. doi:10.1073/pnas.81.17.5523. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 391738. PMID 6206499.

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