Pierre Gianello

Prof. Pierre Gianello was awarded as Doctor in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Brussels, Belgium). He acquired his education in abdominal surgery at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels and at the hospital de La Croix-Rousse de Lyon, France. He completed his post-doc training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA) in the Transplant Biology Research Center managed by Prof. David Sachs. In 1997, he became head of the Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Transplantation at University of Louvain (UCL) and in 2005, he obtained the title of full Professor at UCL. He was then elected Dean of Research from 2006 to 2009 and Vice-Rector from 2009 up to 2011. He is today the general coordinator of Research of the Health Sciences Sector at UCL, Brussels and Councilor of the vice-rector in the research and on the international stage at UCL, Brussels.