Jean-Paul Borg

Doctor in Pharmacy (1995, Marseille), PhD. (1995, Marseille, D. Birnbaum’s lab), Jean-Paul Borg was a post-doctoral fellow at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Ben Margolis’s lab) from 1995 to 1998. From 1998 to 2006, he was an Inserm Investigator and then became Professor of Cell Biology at Aix Marseille University (since 2006). He is Head of the “Cell Polarity, Cell Signalling and Cancer” team at CRCM since 2004 and Director of CRCM since 2012. Since 2007, he is the Scientific Director of Institut Paoli-Calmettes, one of the largest university-affiliated comprehensive cancer centres in France, and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy. He is also co-coordinator of the Marseille Proteomic Platform labelled IBiSA since 2008. The major part of his scientific career has been focused on elucidating cell signalling pathways and in particular molecular networks centred on cell polarity proteins in the field of cancer. He has published more than 120 papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals (Nature Com, Dev Cell, Nature Cell Biol., Science, Curr. Biol., Mol. Cell Proteomics, J Biol Chem, Oncogene, EMBO Reports,...).