Pascal Pineau is currently research director (i.e., PI) at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. After pharmaceutical studies and a hospital internship in Paris, Pascal Pineau graduated with a Ph.D. from Paris XI University in 1998 and took a position of permanent scientist in the Institut Pasteur in 2000. Dr. Pineau has published more than 110 papers in international journals. He is involved in teaching at the Institut Pasteur and has developed collaborative research programs with the Pasteur Institute International Network. His main research interests are dealing with the molecular epidemiology of hepatocellular carcinoma in correlation with viral infections and environmental mutagens. Dr. Pineau pioneered the field of hepatocellular carcinoma in low incidence and poorly studied areas, such as North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe/Russia, or South-America. He recently developed a collaborative project with the Peruvian Institute for Tumor Diseases (INEN) and colleagues from the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) to decipher the etiological and molecular bases of unusual primary liver tumors affecting adolescent and young adults of Amerind ancestry from Peru. He received the Gustave Roussy award from the French Academy of Sciences in 2000.