2004 Laureate
Current position
Professor at Collège de France, chair: Dynamics of living systems / Director, Turing Center of Living Systems, Marseille. Institut Convergences.
Host institution
Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille (IBDM), France
thomas.lecuit@univ-amu.fr
Drosophila embryo epithelium © 2014
Thomas Lecuit and his team study how epithelial tissues maintain a robust organization and extensively remodel as they grow and change their shape during development.
• 1991 Admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
• 1998 Ph. D. University Paris 6 UPMC, France and EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, Steve Cohen's lab
• 1998-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Eric Wieschaus' lab
• 2001 appointed team leader at the Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille, Marseille, France
• 2008 appointed editor of the international jounal Development
• 2013 head of the INFORM Labex
• Life Science Prize of Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, 2015
• Silver Medal of CNRS, 2015
• Elected member of the Academia Europaea and of the French Academia of Science, 2014
• Advanced Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2012
• Victor Noury Award, French Academy of Sciences, 2011
• Antoine Lacassagne Award, Collège de France, 2009
• Elected EMBO member, 2009
• Early Career Award, European Life Science Organization, 2007