Christelle Peyron is a neuroscientist, director of research at the center for research in neuroscience of Lyon (CRNL), University of Lyon1 in France. She is the co-leader of the SLEEP lab at the CRNL and the leader of the research group on narcolepsy.
She participated to the discovery of the hypocretins neuropeptides (also called orexins) while a post-doctoral fellow with TS Kilduff at Stanford university (California), then showed that hypocretin neuropeptides are missing in narcoleptic patients while a post-doc with Emmanuel Mignot (Stanford university, California). She received the 1997 and 1998 young scientist awards from the American Association of Sleep Medicine and the 2000 price of excellence for young scientists from the Sleep Research Society (USA).