Bruno Péault, Ph.D.
Bruno Péault, Ph.D., recognized for his research on the identification, characterization and purification of several categories of human stem cells, has recently been appointed as a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the McGowan Institute in January of 2003, he served as the Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and department head at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM). Dr. Péault's stem cell based research has gained him notoriety for his work with hematopoietic stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial stem cells, as well as pancreas and respiratory epithelium stem cells.
Dr. Péault's research has been focused on the characterization of human hematopoietic stem cells, identification of a novel marker, and the development of new assays for human stem cells in immunodeficient mice. Besides normal, malignant and transgenic hematopoiesis, a novel xenochimeric system was developed that faithfully models the differentiation of human respiratory tissues in SCID mice. Most recently this assay system has been used to identify the first population of stem cells in the human respiratory epithelium. Thus, a model has also been modified to offer the first system in which human secondary lymphoid tissues (lymph nodes) can be maintained intact and functional for extended periods of time, offering the first ex vivo model of human immunity. View Publications.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Bruno Péault
Phone: (412) 692-6526
Email: bruno.peault@chp.edu