Norbert Perrimon

Norbert Perrimon (b. Oct. 24, 1958) is a geneticist and developmental biologist at Harvard Medical School. He is known for developing a number of techniques for use of Drosophila, as well as specific substantive contributions to signal transduction and developmental biology. Perrimon co-developed the GAL4/UAS system method, described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”,^[3] with Andrea Brand to control gene expression.^[4] More recently his lab has pioneered high-throughput whole-genome RNAi screening.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Education

Perrimon was born in 1958 in Bosguérard-de-Marcouville, France. He earned his undergraduate degree (Maitrise of Biochemistry) at the University of Paris VI, in 1981, then completing his doctorate in 1983 with Madeleine Gans also at the University of Paris.

Career

From 1983 to 1986 Perrimon was a postdoctoral researcher with Anthony Mahowald^{[11][12][13][14]} at Case Western Reserve University, and in 1986 at the age of 27 he accepted appointment as faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Awards and honors

Perrimon was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in April 2013,^[6][15] after naturalizing as an American citizen.

• Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Sciences, 1985.
• Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1986–present
• Chaire d’Etat. College de France. Paris, 2003
• George W. Beadle Medal, Genetics Society of America, 2004^[2]
• RNAi Innovator award, 2009
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009
• Associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2011
• Fellow of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 2013

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