Born in Athens (Greece) on October 28 1946.
Training and professional career
- 1975-1978 : Postdoctoral researcher at the Biozentrum, University of Basel (Switzerland), in the laboratory of Prof. W. Gehring (EMBO Fellow)
- 1979-1980 : Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University (USA), in the laboratory of Prof. David S. Hogness (Swiss National Foundation scholarship holder)
- 1981 : Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University
- 1989 : Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University
- 1990 : Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1991-1996 : Director, " Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology Program ", " Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine ". Yale University, School of Medicine
- 1996 : Director, Division of Biological Sciences , Yale University
- 1999 : Professor, Isselbacher-Schwarz Chair , Harvard Medical School
- 1999 : Director, Developmental Biology and Cancer Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School
- 1999-2012 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Developmental Biology and Genetics
- 1999 : Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
- 2007-2009 : Founding Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit (IC/CNRS UMR 3215/INSERM U934), Institut Curie, Paris
- 2007 : Team leader : " Notch signaling pathways, proliferation and oncogenesis " in the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit, Institut Curie, Paris
- 2007 : Program Director " Developmental and regenerative biology ", Harvard Medical School