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professor Denis Duboule after a conference on 16 November 2009 in Lausanne.
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| Born | 1955 Geneva |
| Citizenship | Swiss and French |
| Fields | Development biology |
| Institutions | EPFL, University of Geneva |
| Known for | Work on Hox genes |
| Notable awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1998), Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2004) |
Denis Duboule (born in Geneva in 1955[1]) is a Swiss-French biologist. He has notably worked on the Hox genes involved in development of limbs.[2]
Duboule obtained a PhD from University of Geneva in 1984.
After questioning Karl Illmensee's claims of having cloned a mouse, Duboule departed to work as a postdoc at the University of Strasbourg, with Pierre Chambon. In 1988, he was made a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
In 1992, he obtained a tenure at Geneva University. From 1997, he has headed the Department of Zoology and Animal Biology.[2] Since 2001, he has also supervised the Frontiers in Genetics NCCR, and since 2006, he has chaired as a full professor at the EPFL.[3]