Christine Varela is the senior technician in charge of the cell culture laboratory.
Christine studied biological sciences in Paris at the ENCPB, school specialising in technical disciplines. She subsequently worked in cytogenetics at a major private laboratory (BIOMNIS) becoming a specialist in the domain. She was then taken on I-Stem ( a company specializing in human stem cells) where she specialized in pluripotent cell culture including neural cell application and set up the cytogenetic platform. Christine then moved to a public research institute (INSERM) where she worked on cancer cells.