Dimitris Kioussis elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society
NIMR scientist, Dimitris Kioussis, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.
Royal Society Fellows are at the cutting edge of science worldwide. Their achievements represent the vast contribution science makes to society. This year 44 new Fellows have been elected. They join an outstanding group of over 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society, and all rank among the international leaders in their field.
Dimitris Kioussis was born and raised in Athens, Greece. He studied medicine there before pursuing a career in research, studying molecular biology and development with Shirley Tilghman and Richard W. Hanson in the US, and from 1980 working on gene regulation at NIMR with Richard Flavell and Frank Grosveld.
Almost all of Dr Kioussis' independent career has been spent at NIMR, with a short break as a lecturer at the Middlesex School of Medicine (1984-1986), following which he returned to NIMR to head a research group in the Division of Gene Structure and Expression. In 1992 he became head of the newly-formed Division of Molecular Immunology. He has made seminal discoveries on how chromatin regulates gene expression. His work has had global impact on our knowledge of chromatin structure in lymphocyte development. He is a member of EMBO and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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[15 May 2009]