Pr. Minoru Yoshida
Executive Vice-President of RIKEN, Leader of the Chemical Genomics Research Group
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Japan
Invited by Dr. Pierre-Antoine Defossez
“Tackling Genetic Diseases with Chemical Biology“
The seminar will take place in the Institut Jacques Monod seminar room (RB-18B).
Bâtiment Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion, Paris 13th.
On Friday, February 20th, at 2:00 pm.
Professor Yoshida has published over 300 papers, collectively cited over 50,000 times. His h-factor is 104. Among his many discoveries, he identified Trichostatin-A as an inhibitor of histone deacetylases. He has received many prestigious prizes, such as the Japan Academy Prize.
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