Moshe Yaniv#
| Membership Number: | 1236 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/moshe-yaniv |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS)
- 1975-2006 Head of the Gene Expression and Disease Unit at the Pasteur Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetic and epigenetic gene switches in a wide range of biological processes including Type II diabetes, polycystic kidney disease
- Development of organs such as the heart and liver
- Cancerous development of cells
Honours and Awards
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Member of the EMBO
- Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Academia Europea
- Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences
- 1995 Charles Léopold Mayer Prize
- 2006 Mitjavie Prize for cancer Research
- 2011 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science
