Speakers > Bertrand PAIN

B. Pain graduated from the University of Lyon after studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), at the University of Paris VI and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, where he completed his PhD under the supervision of J. Samarut. By working on hematopoietic progenitors, he identifies their self-renewal in vitro in the avian model. After a stay at the IMSUT (Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Tokyo), he joined the INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) as a Research Fellow. There he established and developed the model of avian embryonic stem cells from 1993 to 1998. After a stay of 3 years as R&D Director of the biotechnology company Vivalis (now Valneva), he joined again the INRA Institute where he studied the pluripotency mechanisms in avian and agronomic species and identifies pluripotency genes in avian species for the first time.

B. Pain is currently Research Director at INRAE, within the SBRI, Stem Cell and Brain Research institute, U1208 INSERM, USC1361 INRAE in Lyon where his team studies pluripotent stem cells and develops somatic reprogramming and differentiation approaches, notably through the development of organoids.

He also chairs the Scientific Council of the CRB-Anim infrastructure (https://www.crb-anim.fr/), is a member of the FC3R Scientific Council, ot the BCDE ITMO of Aviesan and an expert of the Ministerial Committee for the evaluation of APA processes.