Moshe Yaniv - Biography#

Moshe Yaniv is an Emeritus Professor at the Pasteur institut and Directeur de Recherche (CNRS). He received a Master degree in Chemistry from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1961) and a Ph.D in Molecular Biology from the University of Paris (1969). He was a postdoctoral fellow in LMB Cambridge and Stanford University.

He has headed the Gene Expression and Disease Unit at the Pasteur Institute (1975-2006), chair of the departments of Molecular Biology (86-88) and Biotechnology (92-94). He was a pioneer in the field of DNA tumour viruses and combined it with studies on chromatin, tissue specific gene expression and mouse models for human diseases including cancer. He is the authour of more than 300 publications in the most prestigious scientific journals.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, EMBO (chairman of the council, 1996), foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, European Academy of Cancer Sciences etc.

He received the Charles Léopold Mayer (French Acad. of Sciences,1995),Mitjavie Prize for cancer Research(French academy of Medicine,2006) and the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science (2011).