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Greek medical researcher

Born

Greek: Βασίλης Πάχνης^[1]

EducationUniversity of Athens
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)

AwardsEMBO Member (2007)^[2]

InstitutionsFrancis Crick Institute
Columbia University^[3]

Vassilis Pachnis FRS FMedSci
Pachnis in 2018
Born	Greek: Βασίλης Πάχνης^[1]
Education	University of Athens University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Awards	EMBO Member (2007)^[2]
Scientific career
Institutions	Francis Crick Institute Columbia University^[3]
Thesis	Identification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Shirley M. Tilghman
Other academic advisors	Richard Axel

Website	www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/vassilis-pachnis

Vassilis Pachnis (Greek: Βασίλης Πάχνης) is a Greek medical researcher who is Senior Group Leader in the Development and Homeostasis of the Nervous System Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Pachnis was born and raised in Greece. He graduated from the University of Athens in 1980, where he studied medicine.^[7] From 1980 until 1986 he worked for his PhD in the laboratory of Shirley Tilghman at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fox Chase Cancer Center where his research identified and characterised the H19 gene.^[8]^[9]

Career and research

From 1986 until 1991 he did postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Richard Axel and Frank Costantini at Columbia University.^[3]^[7] 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 in 2018^[7] and awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2007.^[2]

References

↑ "Βασίλης Πάχνης: Ελληνας ερευνητής εξελέγη μέλος της Βασιλικής Εταιρείας Επιστημών της Βρετανίας [εικόνα]". Iefimerida.gr. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
1 2 Anon (2007). "EMBO MEMBER: Vassilis Pachnis". People.embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization.
1 2 Schuchardt, Anita; D'Agati, Vivette; Larsson-Blomberg, Lena; Costantini, Frank; Pachnis, Vassilis (1994). "Defects in the kidney and enteric nervous system of mice lacking the tyrosine kinase receptor Ret". Nature. 367 (6461): 380–383. Bibcode:1994Natur.367..380S. doi:10.1038/367380a0. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 8114940. S2CID 4234902.
↑ "Vassilis Pachnis - The Francis Crick Institute". Crick.ac.uk.
↑ Vassilis Pachnis ORCID 0000-0001-9733-7686
↑ Vassilis Pachnis publications from Europe PubMed Central
1 2 3 Anon (2018). "Dr Vassilis Pachnis FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
↑ Pachnis, Vassilis (1987). Identification and characterization of the H19 locus which is under the control of the murine raf and rif genes. Repository.upenn.edu (PhD thesis). OCLC 244944581.
↑ Pachnis, V.; Belayew, A.; Tilghman, S. M. (1984). "Locus unlinked to alpha-fetoprotein under the control of the murine raf and Rif genes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 81 (17): 5523–5527. Bibcode:1984PNAS...81.5523P. doi:10.1073/pnas.81.17.5523. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 391738. PMID 6206499.

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v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2018
Fellows	Jim Al-Khalili Polly Arnold Jillian Banfield Margaret Brimble Neil Brockdorff Frank Caruso Vincenzo Cerundolo Kevin Costello Robert Crabtree Philip Dawid Peter Dayan Richard Dixon Gregory Edgecombe Wenfei Fan Roger Goody Robin Grimes Gregory Hannon Demis Hassabis Judy Hirst Graeme Jameson Harren Jhoti Sophien Kamoun Andrew King Dimitri Kullmann Dominic Kwiatkowski Richard Marais Cathie Martin Elon Musk Peter O'Hearn Vassilis Pachnis Tracy Palmer Colin Prentice Lalita Ramakrishnan Nancy Reid Graham Richards David Richardson Sheila Rowan Ingrid Scheffer Michelle Simmons John Smol Timothy Softley John Speakman Graeme Stephens Angela Strank Charles Swanton Peter Visscher Guy Wilkinson Geordie Williamson Daniel Wise Nikolay Zheludev
Honorary	David Willetts (Baron Willetts of Havant)
Foreign	Carolyn Bertozzi Martin Chalfie Sebsebe Demissew Jeffrey Friedman Fabiola Gianotti Albrecht Hofmann Butler Lampson Tullio Pozzan Joachim Sauer Adi Shamir

v t e Francis Crick Institute
Funded by	Cancer Research UK Imperial College London King's College London Medical Research Council University College London Wellcome Trust
Senior staff	Simon Boulton Doreen Cantrell David Cooksey Julian Downward Jeremy Farrar Steve Gamblin Peter Gruss Adrian Hayday Caroline S. Hill Tim Hunt Malcolm Irving Harpal Kumar Robin Lovell-Badge Tomas Lindahl Paul Nurse Vassilis Pachnis Anne O'Garra Keith Peters Geraint Rees John Skehel Jim Smith Charles Swanton Richard Treisman Frank Uhlmann Jean-Paul Vincent David Willetts Philip Yea
Incorporating	National Institute for Medical Research London Research Institute

Authority control databases: Academics	ORCID

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