Simon Wain-Hobson
Simon Wain-Hobson (born May 25, 1953) is a British/French Microbiologist, Professor of Molecular Retrovirology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Director of the French National HPV Reference Laboratory, and Board Chairman of the in Washington, D.C.
Career[]
Wain-Hobson obtained a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 1977, served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science from 1977 to 1980, and thereafter moved to the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Wain-Hobson and his research group at the Pasteur Institute were the first to publish the sequence of HIV, which was also the first full sequence of a primate lentivirus.[1][2] Wain-Hobson is holder of licensed patents on HIV genomes and diagnostics.[3]
Wain-Hobson's most recent work involves the role of APOBEC3 in cancer and other human diseases.[4][5] Wain-Hobson is a co-founder of Invectys Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of immunotherapy approaches to the treatment of cancer.
Wain-Hobson won the André Lwoff prize in 1996 and Athena prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2007 and is Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.[6]
References[]
- ^ Wain-Hobson, S. (1995). "An interview with Simon Wain-Hobson, PHD. Interview by Mark Mascolini". Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care. 1 (4): 8–13. PMID 11362509.
- ^ "A retroviral mystery tour". 28 November 2019.
- ^ "Bio". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- ^ Perez-Bercoff, Danielle; Laude, Hélène; Lemaire, Morgane; Hunewald, Oliver; Thiers, Valérie; Vignuzzi, Marco; Blanc, Hervé; Poli, Aurélie; Amoura, Zahir; Caval, Vincent; Suspène, Rodolphe; Hafezi, François; Mathian, Alexis; Vartanian, Jean-Pierre; Wain-Hobson, Simon (12 April 2021). "Sustained high expression of multiple APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases in systemic lupus erythematosus". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 7893. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87024-1. ISSN 2045-2322. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ Vartanian, Jean-Pierre; Guétard, Denise; Henry, Michel; Wain-Hobson, Simon (11 April 2008). "Evidence for Editing of Human Papillomavirus DNA by APOBEC3 in Benign and Precancerous Lesions". Science. 320 (5873): 230–233. doi:10.1126/science.1153201. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Wain-Hobson Simon". Ae-info.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- British virologists
- French virologists
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- 1953 births
- Living people