Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai#
| Membership Number: | 6841 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/ramesh-pillai/overview |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2080-3604 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Full Professor at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva
- 2006 - 2016 Group leader at EMBL Grenoble Outstation, France
- 2003 - 2006 Post-doctoral fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel in Prof. Witold Filipowicz's group
Fields of Scholarship
- Epigenetics
- RNA modifications
- miRNAs
- Noncoding RNAs
- RNA biology
- Biochemistry
- piRNAs
- Germline small RNAs
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Best PhD thesis Award by the Faculty of Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
- 2005 The RNA Society Scaringe Award
- 2006 FEBS Anniversary Prize of the Gesellschaft fur Biochemie und Molekularbiologie.
- 2006 Max M. Burger Prize 2006, awarded by the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel.
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant (pisilence) from EU.
- 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant from EU (funded by SNF as ERC Transfer Grant, June, 2016).
