Jean-Marc Egly (born 27 December 1945), is a French molecular biology researcher specialising in the field of transcription.
[1] Jean-Marc Egly obtained his doctorate in chemistry in 1971 and a second in biochemistry in 1976 at the Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg.
[2] In 1985, he became Inserm research director at the IGBMC in Strasbourg, founded by Pierre Chambon.
In 1995, he was commissioned by the Secrétaire d'état à la Recherche, Elisabeth Dufourcq, to carry out a mission and prepare a report advocating the creation of the Great Sequencing of the Genome in Evry.
[4] Jean-Marc Egly's work focused mainly on describing the mechanisms of transcription at the level of type II RNA polymerase.