In 2005, I obtained a French ministerial grant to pursue a PhD in Physiology and Pathophysiology in the laboratory of Pathophysiology of the nutrition of Bernard Portha at Paris Diderot University, where I was interested in the implication of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling in the regulation of the β-cell growth and regeneration in different in vivo and in vitro models. After my PhD, I joined the INSERM team of Anne Marie Rodriguez at the Mondor Institut, Créteil, where I developed my interest on MSC and their regenerative functions to optimize current cardiac cell therapies as well as impairment of stem cell properties and their involvement in degenerative diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD).
In 2014, I moved to Denmark and started working in the group of Moustapha Kassem where I developed projects related to bone quality and regeneration in different pathological contexts like aging, osteoporosis, obesity or diabetes. I am particularly interested in understanding how dysregulation of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) properties can interfere in these processes and in identifying targets that could allow us to alleviate these dysregulations. Lately, I have developed a skeletal injury model of mice with obesity and T2D that allow us to follow bone healing process and dissect each step of the bone regeneration.
I enjoy dancing, practicing yoga, reading and spending time with friends to talk politics while playing board games and remodeling the world with a glass of wine.