Jean Weissenbach

Jean Weissenbach
Born	13 February 1946 (1946-02-13) (age 79) Strasbourg, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Human genome
Awards	Gairdner Award (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Genetics
Institutions	Genoscope

Jean Weissenbach (born 13 February 1946) is a French biologist. He is the current director of the Genoscope. He is one of the pioneers of sequencing and genome analysis. ^[1]

Publications

• Weissenbach, Jean (May 2004). "Genome sequencing: differences with the relatives". Nature . 429 (6990). England: 353–5. doi: 10.1038/429353a . PMID   15164045.
• Weissenbach, J (2002). "Human genome project: past, present, future". Ernst Schering Res. Found. Workshop (36). Germany: 1–9. ISSN   0947-6075. PMID   11859560.
• Weissenbach, J (December 1998). "Human genome mapping and sequencing: perspectives for toxicology". Toxicol. Lett. 102–103. Netherlands: 1–4. doi:10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00267-7. ISSN   0378-4274. PMID   10022225.
• Weissenbach, J (August 1998). "The Human Genome Project: from mapping to sequencing". Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. 36 (8). Germany: 511–4. doi:10.1515/CCLM.1998.086. ISSN   1434-6621. PMID   9806450.
• Weissenbach, J (October 1996). "Landing on the genome". Science . 274 (5287). United States: 479. doi: 10.1126/science.274.5287.479 . ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   8927994.
• Weissenbach, J (March 1997). "Mapping and human genome sequence program". Pathol. Biol. (in French). 45 (3). France: 205–8. ISSN   0369-8114. PMID   9296064.

References

1. "CNRS 2008 Gold Medal winner: Jean Weissenbach, pioneer of genome analysis". CNRS. 9 July 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2010.