Bart Deplancke Appointed Full Professor
Bart Deplance © 2019 EPFL
The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of seven professors at EPFL. Among them, Professor Bart Deplancke at the Institute of Bioengineering / School of Life Sciences, who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor.
Over the past few years, Bart Deplancke has established himself as an international leader in his specialist area. His work has made a significant contribution to understanding the way in which gene regulation enables fatty tissue to develop and controls its function. He has, for example, identified a previously unknown cell type that regulates adipogenesis. His highly regarded results also include new technologies for gene analysis at the single-cell level. Bart Deplancke makes a valuable contribution to teaching and research at EPFL. In addition, he strengthens its innovative capacity and expands the Federal Institute’s national and international networks.