David Sassoon

David Sassoon, Ph.D., is a research team director at Paris Sorbonne. His long-standing interest has been in developmental and stem cell biology in a number of tissues including skeletal muscle, skin, CNS and heart. A major focus of his research is on adult progenitor/stem cell biology and how these cells respond to stress. He received his PhD from Columbia University in the biological sciences and performed his postdoctoral studies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France before directing his research group at Boston University Medical School.