Imagine's Scientific Advisory Board

Made up of eminent scientists recognized worldwide, every year the Scientific Advisory Board makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees and to Imagine’s Top Management on the Institute’s scientific and strategic guidelines, including the selection of new teams, the development and organization of scientific groups, as well as assessment of their work.

Imagine Institute

Elisabeth Blackburn

President of the Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

 

Thanks to its independence and global outlook and vision as well as its experience and goodwill, the Scientific Advisory Board has the legitimacy to challenge us in our scientific and medical battles, but also in those concerning the existence and future of the Foundation. It helps us to tackle global science, to raise awareness and share our model, and to build an international network. It conducts an assessment of Imagine at the highest level, which contributes to the Institute’s excellence. The varied and complementary expertise of its members together covers the major scientific fields and current thought patterns of the Institute
 

Prof. Stanislas Lyonnet
,
Director of the Imagine Institute

  • Prof. Stylianos Antonarakis, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Prof. Aravinda Chakravarti, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA
  • Prof. Anthony Monaco, Tufts University, Medford/Sommerville, USA
  • Prof. Denis Duboule, Developmental Genomics, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Prof. Fiona Powrie, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford, UK
  • Prof. Iain Drummond , MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA
  • Prof. Bernard Malissen, Immunophenomics Center, Marseille-Luminy, France
  • Prof. Antoine Triller, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
  • Prof. Douglas Higgs, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University, UK 
  • Prof. Jacques Fellay, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CHUV Precision Medicine Unit, Lausanne, Switzerland 
  • Pr Yasmine Belkaid, Director, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
  • Pr Molly Przeworski, Professor of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • Pr Christopher Walsh, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Division of Medical Genetics, Boston Children's Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • Dr Raphael Rodriguez, CNRS DR, Multi-scale physics-chemistry-biology and cancer (molecules, cells, tissues and organisms), Institut Curie, Team Leader, Paris, France
  • Pr Federica Sallusto, Director of Center for Medical Immunology, Institute for Biomedical Research, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

I have been a member of the Imagine Scientific Advisory Board since it was established over ten years ago. I have witnessed the Institute’s development and the realization of its dream, which was to bring together all the knowledge in developmental sciences and all the expertise as regards understanding genetic diseases, in a single workspace and with a mindset that creates synergies. I do not think that this unique combination can be found anywhere else
 

Elizabeth Blackburn
,
President of the Scientific Advisory Board