Speaker

Biography

J Pouysségur graduated from an Engineering School in Biochemistry of the University of Lyon, where he obtained his PhD in 1972. He spent two years as a post-doctoral scientist at the National Cancer Institute of NIH (USA) and established his own research group in 1978 at the CNRS Biochemistry Centre of the University of Nice. After directing the CNRS Institute of Signalling, Developmental Biology and Cancer, affiliated to the Cancer Centre Antoine Lacassagne up to 2008, J Pouysségur, joined the Cancer & Aging (IRCAN) in Nice, and later the Biomedical Department of the Scientific Centre of Monaco (CSM). 

Jacques Pouysségur had previous experience in bacterial and somatic cell genetics, metabolism, Na-H exchanger, pH regulation, MAP kinase signalling in the context of growth control in mammalian cells. In the last 25 years his group developed a strong interest in hypoxia signalling, oxygen and nutrient sensing and Bioenergetics. He is member of AACR, EACR, EMBO, the French and European Academy of Sciences