Denis Duboule

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Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule in 2010
Born	(1955-02-17) February 17, 1955 (age 69) Geneva
Citizenship	Swiss and French
Known for	Work on Hox genes
Awards	Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1998)[1] Marcel Benoist Prize (2003) Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (2004) Fellow of the Royal Society[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Development biology
Institutions	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne University of Geneva Collège de France

Denis Duboule (born February 17, 1955) is a Swiss-French biologist. He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is the Director of the Swiss National Research Center "Frontiers in Genetics" and since 2017, he is also a professor at the Collège de France. He has notably worked on Hox genes, a group of genes involved in the formation of the body plan and of the limbs.