BRIGITTE GOMPERTS, MD
Assistant Professor Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Brigitte Gomperts is an Assistant Professor at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. She received her MD degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her Pediatric residency and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellowship training at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. She worked on the development of ciliated cells in the airway epithelium in the laboratory of Dr. Brian Hackett at Washington University in St. Louis. She was then recruited to UCLA where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Strieter, and discovered circulating epithelial progenitor cells that contribute to airway epithelial repair after injury. She has subsequently identified a sub-population of resident airway epithelial progenitor cells that are critical for airway epithelial repair, and that persist during aberrant repair and develop into premalignant lesions. She has also developed an assay to quantify circulating epithelial progenitor cells in patients and has found that the levels of these cells correlate with airway epithelial repair in lung transplant patients.

Read more about Brigitte Gomperts:

• Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Biography