Shahragim Tajbakhsh#
| Membership Number: | 4342 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/stem-cells-and-development |
Present and Previous Positions
- May 2012- 2016 Head, Dept. of Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
- Jan. 2011-2016 Vice-Director of CNRS URA 2578
- Jan. 2010 Professor, Institut Pasteur
- May 2007 Lab Head, Stem Cells & Development Unit, Institut Pasteur
- 09/2001 - 2007 Lab Head, Stem Cells & Development Group, Institut Pasteur
- 2001 - 2009 Assistant Professor at Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1997 Associate Professor at Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1995 Staff scientist, Institut Pasteur. Establishing cellular identity in skeletal muscle
- 1990 – 1995 Post-doc; Institut Pasteur; Establishing cellular identity in skeletal muscle
- 1988 - 1989 Post-doc; National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
Fields of Scholarship
- Skeletal muscle stem cell commitment and self-renewal
- Asymmetric cell divisions
- Tissuegenesis
- Regeneration
- Ageing
- Myopathy
- Intravital imaging
- Stem cell niche
- Gene Regulatory Networks
Honours and Awards
- 2014 French Academy of Sciences Prize / Fondation Generale de Santé, for Stem Cell research
- 2013 EMBO Member
- 2013-2018 ERC Advanced Grant: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of stem cell fate
- 2011-2019 LabEx REVIVE Laboratory of Excellence Consortium; co-coordinator: Stem cells in regenerative biology & medicine 28 M € strategic infrastructure grant; 28 Academic and Industrial Partners
- 2010 Vallery-Radot Prize, Institut Pasteur
- 2000 Prix Georges Zermati; Fondation de France
