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Francis Crick Institute The Francis Crick Institute (formerly the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation) is a biomedical research centre in London, which was established in 2010 and opened in 2016. The institute is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Impe ...

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, education = University of Athens

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(PhD) , thesis_title = Identification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes , thesis_url = https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI8725195 , thesis_year = 1987 , doctoral_advisor =

Shirley M. Tilghman Shirley Marie Tilghman, (; née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton Univers ...

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Richard Axel Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won hi ...

, doctoral_students = , notable_students = , known_for = , influences = , influenced = , awards = EMBO Member (2007) , spouse = , partner = , children = , website = Vassilis Pachnis el, Βασίλης Πάχνης One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is a Senior Group Leader in the Development and Homeostasis of the Nervous System Laboratory at the

.Vassilis Pachnis

Education

Pachnis was born and raised in

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. He graduated from the University of Athens in 1980 where he studied Medicine. From 1980 until 1986 he worked for his

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in the laboratory of

Shirley Tilghman Shirley Marie Tilghman, (; née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton Universi ...

at the

and the

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where his research identified and characterised the H19 gene.

Career and research

From 1986 until 1991 he did postdoctoral research in the laboratories of

and Frank Costantini at

. 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 Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 2018 and awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2007.

References

Living people Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scientist-stub