1. Current Status, Position

Dr. Jean-Paul Pirnay graduated as Industrial Engineer in Biochemistry and Biotechnology in 1990. He performed his military service in 1993 and served since then as a researcher in the Queen Astrid Military Hospital (QAMH) in Brussels. He contributed to the development of the human cell and tissue banks and to the introduction of molecular microbiology and phage therapy in the QAMH. In 2003, he received a PhD in Medical Sciences for the study of the molecular eco-epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He is currently Research Coordinator of the QAMH and head of the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology (LabMCT), which harbors the human cell and tissue banks of the QAMH, a phage research laboratory and a cleanroom production facility.

3. Research Area

Research projects include the development of living skin equivalents, the study of the molecular epidemiology (including antibiotic resistance) of bacterial pathogens, and the development and application of therapeutic phage preparations. 

4. Conflict of Interest

No conflict of interest declared