- French molecular biologist Pierre Chambon died at the age of ninety-five.
- Pierre Chambon was a pioneer of both modern genetics and molecular biology.
French molecular biologist Pierre Chambon has died at the age of 95. the University of Strasbourg, where he worked, announced on Saturday. TASR writes about it according to the AFP agency. Chambon was a pioneer of modern genetics and molecular biology. Scientifically, he became famous for his research on gene regulation and nuclear receptors.
He was responsible for groundbreaking discoveries in the field how genes respond to hormones at the molecular level and the characterization of nuclear receptors for steroid hormones, vitamin D, retinoids and thyroid hormones. As the author of almost a thousand scientific works, he ranks among the most cited scientists. He received several awards and was a member of elite scientific academies in the United States and Sweden.
The University of Strasbourg named him an important figure of French and international science, physician, biochemist and geneticist. She stated that he made the region in the east of France, near the borders with Germany and Switzerland, where he was born and did most of his research, “one of the world’s best places for molecular biology”.
