Eric Gilson#
| Membership Number: | 3591 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://ircan.org/index.php?Itemid=89 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Director of Institut for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN) UMR CNRS/INSERM/University of Nice, Nice
- 2012 Head of the “Telomere, sénescence and cancer” team, IRCAN, Nice.
- 2012 Chair of the scientific committee#3, fondation ARC (Association Recherche sur le Cancer)
- 2010-2011 Director of the « Laboratory of Biology and Pathology of Genomes » (LBPG) UMR CNRS /INSERM /University of Nice
- 2009 Professor of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine Nice, Department of Medical Genetics, CHU of Nice (PU-PH)
- 2003-2006 Member of the Scientific Council of of “Fondation de la Recherche Médicale”
- 2003-2006 Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Cell", UMR CNRS/Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
- 2001-2008 Professor of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medecine Lyon-Sud, Hospices Civils Lyon (PU-PH)
Fields of Scholarship
- DNA-protein interaction and chromatin
- Regulation of gene expression
- Functional organization of chromosomes
- DNA damage response
- Cancer
- Epigenetics
- Aging
- Telomere
- Replication
- Repetitive DNA sequences
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Prize Fondation Allianz-Institut de France
- 2010 Prize EUROCANCER
- 2003 EMBO member
- 2002 Prize Marguerite Delahautemaison of “Fondation de la Recherche Médicale”
