THE 1991 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS
The information below refers to the time of the award.
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Professor Pierre Chambon |
Doctor Frank Grosveld |
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THE 1991 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS are Pierre CHAMBON (Strasbourg), Frank G. GROSVELD (London) and Hugh R.B. PELHAM (Cambridge, UK).
The 1991 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is attributed to three researchers in molecular and cellular biology.
Pierre CHAMBON has eminently contributed to our knowledge of gene regulation by steroid hormones and retinoic acid. His present work concerns genes expressed in breast cancer and could open the door to new therapeutic approaches for dealing with this disease.
Frank G. GROSVELD identified multiple regulatory elements in globin genes (in mice and human). His discoveries shed a new light on hereditary diseases linked with β-globin gene mutations (thalassaemias)identified multiple regulatory elements in globin genes (in mice and human). His discoveries shed a new light on hereditary diseases linked with β-globin gene mutations (thalassaemias).
Hugh R.B. PELHAM discovered the mechanism which permits proteins to be retained in the cell structure of the endoplasmic reticulum and hence to be sorted from secreted proteins.
THE AWARD CEREMONY was held on Friday April 19, 1991, in Geneva (Switzerland).
