Céline Banal is an engineer. After graduating and four years at the Necker DNA biobank, she joined the iPS platform in January 2017.

She reprograms somatic cells (blood cells, fibroblasts) into pluripotent stem cells (iPS) and it ensures their molecular and functional characterization. She is also involved in research projects aiming to differentiate iPS lines into 2D cells (neural stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells) and 3D structures (intestinal organoids, cerebral organoids).