Biography

Born February 7 1931, Mulhouse, France.

Academic positions

  • 1956-1961 : Assistant at the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Strasbourg Faculty of Medicine
  • 1962-1966 : Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Strasbourg Faculty of Medicine
  • 1966-1967 : Research internship (grant from the International Union Against Cancer) in the laboratory of Prof. A. Kornberg, Stanford University, California, U.S.A
  • 1967-1985 : Professor without a Chair at Louis Pasteur University, U.E.R. Sciences Médicales, Strasbourg
  • 1985-1991 : Professor at the Université Louis Pasteur, U.E.R. Sciences Médicales, Strasbourg, France
  • 1991-1993 : Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France, Faculty of Medicine, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg
  • 1993-2002 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Molecular Genetics

Hospital appointments

  • 1972- : Hospital practitioner - head of biochemistry laboratories at surgical clinics A and B, Hospices civils de Strasbourg

Research positions

  • 1977- : Director, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotes (LGME) (CNRS laboratory)
  • 1978- : Director of Inserm's Unit 184 for Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
  • 1994- : Director of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), CNRS/Inserm/Université Louis-Pasteur/Collège de France
  • 1999- : Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Genomics Program at the French Ministry of Research, Director of the Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine Genopole

Research

Pierre Chambon directed the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire in association with : CNRS/LGME-INSERM/U.184, Université Louis Pasteur

Main theme

Structural and functional study of higher eukaryotic genomes. Control of gene expression during embryonic development and normal and pathological differentiation. Structure-function relationships.

Selected bibliography