Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai#


Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai
Membership Number:6841
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:SWITZERLAND
Homepage(s):https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/ramesh-pillai/overview
ORCID:0000-0003-2080-3604





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2016 Full Professor at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva
  • 2006 - 2016 Group leader at EMBL Grenoble Outstation, France
  • 2003 - 2006 Post-doctoral fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel in Prof. Witold Filipowicz's group

Fields of Scholarship
  • Epigenetics
  • RNA modifications
  • miRNAs
  • Noncoding RNAs
  • RNA biology
  • Biochemistry
  • piRNAs
  • Germline small RNAs

Honours and Awards
  • 2003 Best PhD thesis Award by the Faculty of Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2005 The RNA Society Scaringe Award
  • 2006 FEBS Anniversary Prize of the Gesellschaft fur Biochemie und Molekularbiologie.
  • 2006 Max M. Burger Prize 2006, awarded by the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel.
  • 2010 ERC Starting Grant (pisilence) from EU.
  • 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant from EU (funded by SNF as ERC Transfer Grant, June, 2016).

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