讲座题目: （一）Role of thyroid hormone receptors in tumorigenic development of colon epithelial cells

            （二）Cooperation of androgen receptor and transcription factor EF2 in regulation of prostate genes

主讲人: Jacques Samarut, Université Claude Bernard

主持人:翁杰敏教授

开始时间: 2015.7.15, 10:00-11:00

         2015.7.16, 10:00-11:00

讲座地址: 闵行生科院534报告厅

 

报告人简介：Jacques Samarut got his PhD at the University of Lyon in 1982. He was then appointed as Associate Professor at the Rockefeller University of New York and then as Invited Professor at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. He is presently professor of molecular biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon. From 2008 to 2014 he has been the President of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon a prestigious graduate school.  He had been formerly director of the Life Sciences study section of the French National Agency for Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of the scientific advisory board of the French National Institute for Agronomy (INRA). He received several awards including the Leukemia award of the French League against Cancer (1987) and the Rosen Award Foundation for Medical Research, Paris (1990), and the silver medal of the CNRS (1997) for his work on the role of oncogenes and nuclear receptors in oncogenic transformation. He is presently working on genomics of nuclear receptors. He published more than 160 original articles in international scientific journals. His research work generated several patents and contributed to the creation of two biotech companies (Genoway, Vivalis). He was honored as Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.

He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Ottawa and Honorary Professor and Higher End Expert of the East China University of Shanghai.