Download Science at the heart of medicine Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D.

Science at the heart of medicine
Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine (Hematology)
Professor, Cell Biology
Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative
Medicine
Director, Einstein Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Dr. Bouhassira obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Paris and has spent most of his career
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he is now the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in the departments of medicine and of cell biology. He is
also the director of the Einstein Comprehensive Pluripotent Stem Cell Center.
Early in his career, Dr. Bouhassira’s research programs were aimed at finding cures for sickle-cell
disease. He has made several important contributions related to the epigenetic control of gene
expression in blood cells.
In the last few years, he has become interested in human embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent
stem cells and their differentiation in adult erythroid cells. His lab has developed novel methods to
produce in vitro large amounts of fully differentiated erythroid cells from human embryonic stem cells.
One focus of his lab is the study of epigenetics in embryonic and hematopoietic cells.
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