Fotis Kafatos
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| Born | Φώτης Κωνσταντίνος Καφάτος April 16, 1940 Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
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Imperial College London European Research Council Cornell University Harvard University European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| Thesis | The escape of moths from the cocoon: biochemical, physiological, morphological, and developmental studies (1965) |
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Fotis Constantine Kafatos (Greek: Φώτης Κ. Καφάτος; born 16 April 1940) is a Greek biologist. Between 2005-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council (ERC) and member of its Scientific Council. He remains Honorary President of the ERC.
At the beginning of his career, he contributed to the development of the Complementary DNA (cDNA) cloning technology and worked on the mechanisms of cellular differentiation leading to the formation of the eggs in insects. He has particular interest in malaria research and used his knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of insects to understand how the insect vector copes with the Plasmodium parasite. He also participated in the sequencing of the genome of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae completed in 2002.
Kafatos was sponsored by Anne Gruner Schlumberger to study in the United States of America. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University on entomology in 1965.
He was Assistant Professor and later Professor and Chairman of the department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Harvard University, Professor of Biology at the University of Athens and at the University of Crete, director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas in Heraklion and third Director-General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory from 1993 to 2005. Since 2005, he has been a professor at Imperial College in London. Since 2008, he is the President of the European Research Council.
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