Frank Yates is Professor at Sup’Biotech engineering school and secretary of the French Society for Stem Cell Research (FSSCR). Fascinated by the possibility of using stem cells in the constantly evolving field of biotechnology, he conducted his PhD on preclinical models for ex-vivo gene therapy for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency at Necker Hospital in Paris. He then worked on embryonic stem (ES) cells at Harvard Children’s Hospital, and on induced pluripotent stem cells (IPS) disease modeling at INSERM in the field of preclinical Models for haematopoietic diseases. Since 2013 he heads CellTechs, a Sup’Biotech/CEA joint lab at Fontenay-aux-Roses, dedicated to better understanding neurodegenerative pathologies using human organoids.
Other contribution: Castiglione H, Vigneron PA, Baquerre C, Yates F, Rontard J, Honegger T. Human Brain Organoids-on-Chip: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives for Preclinical Applications. Pharmaceutics. 2022 Oct 26;14(11):2301. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14112301
