CURRICULUM VITAE (excerpts)

Antoine DANCHIN   唐 善 • 安 東     [老 唐] Mail: antoine[.]danchin[@]academie-sciences[.]fr ORCID: 0000-0002-6350-5001 Web site Synthetic Biology

CV en français

EDUCATION

École Normale Supérieure, (ENS Rue d'Ulm, Paris) 1964-1968

Mathematics: Master's Degree 1965
Physics: Master's Degree 1965

Mathematics: AEA in Algebra and Number Theory, University Paris 6, 1966 (Pierre Samuel)
DEA in Classical Theory of Potential, University Paris 6, 1967 (Marcel Brelot)
Doctorate (3^d cycle, PhD) in Physical Chemistry, University Paris 6, 1967 (supervisors: Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Mildred Cohn)

Science Doctorate (DSci) in Physics, University Paris 11, 1971

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INDUSTRY (excerpts)

2020-present - Co-founder of  Meletios Therapeutics, biotechnology company identifying antiviral remedies
2009-2023 - Founder of AMAbiotics SAS (then Stellate Therapeutics), biotechnology company in microbiome-based therapeutics
1981-2007 Scientific advisor for Institut Pasteur Production (IPP), then Sanofi, then Elf Bio Recherche, then Sanofi-Synthélabo, Sanofi-Aventis, finally Sanofi (heterologous expression of Human Growth Hormone and metabolic controls of gene expression)
1990-2003 Consulting for Pharma-Waldorf (Boehringer)
1992-1994 Consulting for Limagrain
1989-1992 Member of the Scientific Council of ORSAN RECHERCHE
1989-1992 Member of the Evaluation Committee of project EUREKA Labimap
1985-1989 Advisor for Rhône-Poulenc Agrochemistry (xanthan gum production)
1980-1985 Consulting for Genetica (until acquisition by Rhône-Poulenc)

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RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The University of Hong Kong

2017 - 2024 - Honorary Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University
2003 - 2016 - Honorary Professor, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University
2000 - 2003 - Founder and Director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre Ltd, Hong Kong

Beijing Genome Institute

2013 - present - Honorary Professor, BGI Shenzhen
2013 - present - Senior Advisor, China National GeneBank (Shenzhen)

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology

2014-2019 - School of Synthetic Biology, Peacock program

Stellate Therapeutics (AMAbiotics SAS)

2013-2019 - Member of the Scientific Board
2010-2015 - President founder
2010-2013 - Chief Executive Officer
March 2019-2022 - Scientific advisor

Kodikos Labs

2019-2023 - Chief Scientific Officer

Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière

March 2016-February 2019 - Professor extraordinary

Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

2009-2015 - Scientific advisor

École Polytechnique

1965-1966         Instructor in Mathematics (Laurent Schwartz)
1972-1975         Lecturer in Biology (with Maurice Guéron: creation of the Biology cursus)

Institut Pasteur

1986 - 2000 - Head of the Unit Regulation of Gene Expression
1992 - 1998 - Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
2001 - 2009 - Professor, Head of the Unit Genetics of Bacterial Genomes
2006 - 2009 - Director of the Genomes and Genetics Department

Short summary of the research activity of Antoine Danchin

Publications listed at PubMed

Publications listed at Google Scholar

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ADMINISTRATION (excerpts)

France (excerpts)

Member of the National Consultative Committee for Biosecurity (Prime Minister), 2015-2024
Member of the Committee for Scientific and Technical Literature, Centre National du Livre, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 2010-2013
President of the Steering Committee Large-Scale Microbial Genomics, National Agency for Research (Génomique Microbienne à Grande Échelle, GMGE, Agence Nationale de la Recherche), 2007-2010
Member of the Steering Committee (ANR) BIOADAPT, 2011-2013
Member of the Ministry Committee for Life Sciences Coordination (CCSV: nominated by the Minister of Education, Research and Technology), 1998-2000
Member of the Ministry of Education Committee "Genomics", 1999-2002
Member of the Ministry of Industry Committee "Genome Actions", 1999-2001
Member of the Steering Committee of the Bureau des Ressources Génétiques (incorporated in DIVERSITAS), 1989-1993, 1998 - 2001

Académie des Sciences: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genomics, section delegate 2019-2022

Institut Pasteur: Director of the Department Genomes and Genetics, 2006-2009
Member of the Board of Directors, 2003-2005
President of the Scientific Council, 1995-1997
Member of the Institut Pasteur Scientific Council, 1995-2003, 2005-2006

International (excerpts)

Member of the International Advisory Comittee for the coordination of the International Nucleotide Sequences Database Collaboration [NCBI (USA), EBI (EU), DDBJ (Japan)], 1995-present
Member of the Scientific Mangement Board of the European Focus on Biotechnology in China (EFBIC), 2001- 2006

Member of the Senate of the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 2001-2004
Member of the Scientific Council of the EMBL, 1997-2002
Member of the Advisory Board for the EMBL outstation (EBI) at Hinxton (UK), 1994-2002
Member of the Senate of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, 2002-2004
Principal Investigator of the BIOSUPPORT bioinformatics programme set up by the government of Hong Kong, 2002-2005

Reviewer for the National Science Foundation USA, Science Foundation Ireland, Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, Human Frontiers, Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, EU BAP, Bridge, Biotechnology programs etc.

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ACCOLADES (excerpts)

Fellow of the French Academy of Sciences
Delegate of the section Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genomics (2019-2022)

EMBO Member (1981)

Member of the European Academy of Microbiology

Grand Prize of the Academy of Sciences (Prix du CEA, 2006)

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EDITORIAL BOARDS (excerpts)

2016-present - Editor, Genomics Updates, Microbial Biotechnology
2009-present - Editor, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
2009-2017 - Columnist at EMBO Reports
2009-present - Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports - 2017-present - Associate Editor
2009-2017 - The Journal of Bacteriology (ASM)

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POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE (excerpts)

Scientific Advisor, then Columnist: La Recherche 1977-2008

More than 600 publications (430 articles in science, and articles in philosophy, ethics and popularisation of sciences) and 4 books (The Delphic Boat, Harvard University Press, published in 2003)

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MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS

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WWW site of the Unit Genetics of Bacterial Genomes

WWW site of the HKU Pasteur Research Centre

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Interview with Professor Antoine Danchin, the Director of the joint University of Hong Kong Pasteur Research Centre. 13 February 2003 (Photo by Ricky Chung/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)

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