PIERRE FERRIER is a Principal Investigator and Research Director at the
Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), France. He has also worked
as a Director of Marseille-Nice Genopole, a local consortium of more than twenty
laboratories aimed at developing high-throughput research techniques in genomics.
Main research interests include the analysis of the molecular mechanisms responsible
for the control of gene expression and recombination programs during hematopoietic
cell development and pathogenesis. He is a member of several national and international
scientific organizations including the Institut National de la Sante et de la
Recherche Medicale (Inserm), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the
Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC), the Human Frontier Science
Program Organization (HFSPO), and the Universite Virtuelle Medicale de Monaco
(UVMM). Pierre Ferrier received his academic degrees from Montpellier (MD) and
Marseille (PhD) Universities, France. He was a post-doctoral fellow (1986-90) in
the laboratory of Prof. F.W. Alt at the Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.