Peter R. Mouton

Peter R. Mouton is a neuroscientist, science writer and business owner based in Tampa, Florida. He is known for helping to launch the Unbiased Stereology movement, a methodology that recognizes routine 2-D images and tissue sections fail to provide a true reflection of biological structure; rather, accurate quantification of biological structure requires unbiased tissue sampling with bias-free geometric probes. Mouton earned a Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University of South Florida before completing a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Denmark with Professor Hans Gundersen, the father of Unbiased Stereology. He returned to the U.S. and completed an NIH fellowship in Neuropathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD then served on the Hopkins Pathology Faculty, established the first U.S.-based stereology workshops and expanded unbiased stereology to neuroscience researchers at academic institutions, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies. In 2000 he founded SRC Biosciences (Stereology Resource Center, Inc.) to meet the large and growing demand for stereology-related resources, including the Stereologer system, the first computerized stereology system specialized for highly efficient stereology data collection from stained tissue sections and images; a Stereology CRO service for rapid quantification of outsourced tissue samples; and, two highly-cited general stereology textbooks, "Principles and Practices of Unbiased Stereology: An Introduction To Biosciences," and "Unbiased Stereology: A Concise Guide," published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, and one text on stereology applications to neural tissue, "Neurostereology," published by The John Wiley Press. Today, SRC Biosciences provides the most comprehensive, simple-to-use and cost-effective stereology resources for the worldwide community of bioscience researchers. In 2010 he moved SRC Biosciences from Baltimore, MD to Tampa, FL where he serves as voluntary Professor of Stereology at the University of South Florida. Mouton continue his decades-long research program to understand the neuropathology of human diseases. Mouton leads teams of scientists and computer scientists as Principal Investigator of technology and biomedical research grants funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). For over a decade, he has served as a member of an expert panel of neuroscientists focused on reviewing and approving federal funding for grant proposals aimed at developing novel strategies for the therapeutic management of neurological disease and mental illnesses.

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