Jean-Paul Thiery

Jean Paul Thiery is a French biologist born on 25 April 1947. He is director of emeritus research at the CNRS-Paris-Diderot University laboratory on complex materials and systems, at the Institut Gustave Roussy's cancer centre and associate professor at several foreign universities.

Biography

Jean Paul Thiery obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1974 at the Paris Diderot University, Paris. From 1975 to 1977 he carried out postdoctoral research at the Rockefeller University in New York in the laboratory directed by Professor Gerald Edelman, Nobel Prize for Medicine. From 1978 to 1987, he led a team at the Institute of Developmental Biology of the CNRS and the Collège de France. He became director of a CNRS research unit at the École normale supérieure. He joined the Institut Curie in 1995 to head the cell biology laboratory. In 2003 he was appointed Director of the Translational Research Department of the Institut Curie. In 2006, he joined the Singapore Science and Technology Research Agency as Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and in 2012 he was appointed Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Singapore. Emeritus CNRS Researcher since 2010, he is currently Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, the Guangzhou Biomedical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine in Bergen, Norway.