jamal Tazi

Biography

Jamal Tazi is professor of functional genomics at the University of Montpellier, Senior Member at the University Institute of France and deputy director of the health center biology " Rabelais" responsible for education and training. After a thesis on molecular and cellular biology defended in 1988, he performed a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Pathology Molcular (Austria), before joining the CNRS in 1990. For 20 years , he led the team " messenger RNA metabolism in metazoans " within the Institute for Molecular Genetics in Montpellier ( IGMM ) where he made important contributions to understand the fundamental mechanisms of the expression of our genes and editing of their products. These discoveries are used today in the medical field through the development of a new therapy based on the use of small molecules to fight against viral infections and to correct anomalies of gene expression responsible for many cancers. To ensure the transition between basic and applied research, and also to support these innovative projects to clinical stage , Jamal founded in 2008 the company Splicos and established its partnership with public institutions as a cooperative laboratory where, he became the scientific Director. Jamal has co-authored over 90 publications in some of the leading international journals : Nature, Nature Cell Biology , Science, Cell, PNAS , EMBO J. His Work on RNA metabolism and its role in human disease allowed him to win three prizes; by the academy of sciences in 1999 , the academy of medicine in 2006 and in 2010 ARRI. Internationally, Jamal is the coordinator of an European Associated Laboratory ( LEA ) and also a member of a European network of excellence ( EURASNET ) which brings together the best European research centers working on alternative splicing .

Research Interest

 Biochemistry, Pharmacology