Professor Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 1999, he was elected Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Biology and Genetics of Development until 2012 when he became Professeur honoraire. He is the Founding Director of the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology at Institut Curie, Paris. From 2012 to March 2017, he served as Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President at Biogen Inc.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of EMBO, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and a member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, co-founder and president of Fondation Sante, a charitable organization supporting Biomedical research in Greece, and co-founder of Exelixis, Cellzome and Anadys.