Blanpain
Blanpain is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Benoît Blanpain (born 20th century), scout commissioner in Belgium * Cédric Blanpain (born 1970), Belgian researcher See also * 289P/Blanpain 289P/Blanpain, formerly D/1819 W1 (Blanpain) is a short-period comet that was discovered by Jean-Jacques Blanpain on November 28, 1819. Blanpain described the comet as having a "very small and confused nucleus". Another independent discovery was ...

Cédric Blanpain
Cédric Blanpain (born 6 September 1970) is a Belgian researcher in the field of stem cells (embryology, tissue homeostasis and cancer). He is a tenured professor of developmental biology and genetics at Université Libre de Bruxelles and director of the stem cell and cancer lab at its Faculty of Medicine. He was one of the first researchers in the world to use cell lineage tracing in cancer research and he showed for the first time the existence of cancer stem cells in solid tumors in vivo. He was selected by Nature as one of '' 10 People who mattered most in 2012'' and he received the outstanding young investigator award of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Biography Born in Uccle in 1970. Cedric Blanpain attended Collège Saint-Hubert for his secondary education. Graduating in 1987, he started medical school with an aim of becoming a psychiatrist. As soon as his first year, he started doing research in human physiology at the Institut de Recherche Inter-Dis ...
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Benoît Blanpain
Benoît Blanpain served as the General Commissioner of '' Les Scouts - Fédération des Scouts Baden-Powell de Belgique'' (FSC), the Catholic Baden-Powell-Scout Federation of Belgium, as well as the Secretary General of the International Catholic Conference of Scouting. In 1996, Blanpain was awarded the 246th ''Bronze Wolf'', the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest international Scouting organization. WOSM has 173 members. These members are recognized national Scout organizations, which collectively have around 43 million participants. WOS ..., awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. References External links Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award Year of birth missing Scouting and Guiding in Belgium {{Belgium-bio-stub ...
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