Uwe Maskos#
| Membership Number: | 7504 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/integrative-neurobiology-of-cholinergic-systems/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2029-1437 |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=maskos+u&sort=pubdate |
Present and Previous Positions
- from 2007 Chef d’unité, and Deputy Head of Department, Unité Neurobiologie intégrative des systèmes cholinergiques, Département de Neuroscience, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- since 2000 tenured at Institut Pasteur
- 2000 - 2006 Unité de Récepteurs et Cognition, Département de Neuroscience, Institut Pasteur, Paris, with Jean-Pierre Changeux, Project: Novel in vivo approaches in the analysis of nicotinic receptor action and function
- 1997 - 2000 EMBO Fellow, Unité d’Embryologie Moléculaire, Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, Project: Trans-synaptic transfer of molecular activity in the mammalian brain, with Philippe Brûlet
- 1993 - 1997 Fogarty International Fellow, NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (USA), Project: Intra-uterine transplantation of neural stem cells, embryonic stem cells, with Ron McKay
- 1991 - 1993 Medical Research Council (MRC) Fellow, Biochemistry Department, Oxford University, Project: Development of DNA chips, with Sir Edwin M. Southern, FRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Human stem cells
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
- Animal models of disease
- Behaviour
- Cognition
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Prix LECMA à l'Ecole nationale de Médecine
- 2015 Prix de la Chancellerie Sorbonne, Legs Poix
- 2010 Prix Duquesne
