Margaret Buckingham#
| Membership Number: | 1864 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/margaret-buckingham |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Research Director and Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur
- 2002 - 2006 Head of the “Biologie du Développement” department at the Institut Pasteur
- 1992 Professor at the Institut Pasteur at the Institut Pasteur
- 1990 - 1994 Head of the “Biologie Moléculaire” department
- 1987 - 2010 Head of the Molecular Genetics of Development Unit at Pasteur Institute
- 1981 Senior researcher at CNRS
- 1975 - 1981 researcher at CNRS
- 1971 - 1974 Postdoc in France at the Institut Pasteur
Fields of Scholarship
- Stem cell research
- Developmental biology
- Muscle and heart formation
Honours and Awards
- Boehringer Prize of European Federation of Biochemistry Societies (1980)
- Jaffé Prize from French Academy of Sciences (1990)
- Médaille d'argent du CNRS (1999)
- Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (2002)
- Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (2008)
- Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Developmental Biology (2010)
- CNRS Gold Medal
(2013)
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2013)
- member of EMBO, the French Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea
