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April 13 2018
Visceral adipose tissue regulates cardiac aging. Osteopontin (OPN) is a matricellular protein that is upregulated in pathologic cardiac fibrosis and remodeling models. OPN plasma levels also increase with age. A new study conducted by Daïgo Sawaki within Team 8, reveals that OPN secreted by visceral adipose tissue (VAT) promotes interstitial fibrosis associated with age […]
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January 26 2018
Flavia Castellano and Valérie Molinier-Frenkel's group of team 9 (P. Gaulard) with the collaboration of Xavier Decrouy of PL Imaging and Emmanuel Donnadieu of the Cochin Institute has just published an article on the focused secretion of the IL4I1 enzyme at the immune synapse level and its consequences on the activation of T* lymphocytes.
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December 12 2017
The Master’s Award in Myology from the French Society of Myology / Santhera Pharmaceuticals is intended to reward a young researcher for the quality of his or her Master’s work in Biology in clinical, physiopathological or fundamental research in the field of Myology. This prize judges the presentation of the thesis and more generally the […]
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December 7 2017
Rapidly progressive crescent glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is the most aggressive form of acquired glomerular disease. Although most therapeutic approaches use immunosuppressive strategies, pathophysiology is still a mystery.
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November 30 2017
Congratulations to Mickael Miro-Padovani, Master 2 of Team 7 of A. De La Taille who has just received the jury's special prize for his work directed by Dr Mohamed Amiche
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November 27 2017
Congratulations to Benoît Vingert and his colleagues from France Pirenne's team n°2 for his important article in J. Immunology showing that an anti-CD20 antibody prevents the alloimmunization of red blood cells in a murine model. Article included in the Journal of Immunology's editorial of December 1st, 2017!
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November 20 2017
Léo Machado, Philippos Mourikis and Frederic Relaix (IMRB-U955 team of Fred Relaix) have just published a very important article in the review Cell Reports (IF 8.282) of November 14,2017 on the development of a protocol that bypasses the impact of isolation procedures and captures cells in their natural resting state. Their study also reveals previously […]
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November 9 2017
Team 10 of Frédéric Relaix and François-Jérôme Authier associated with several German and French teams, published a very interesting article in the journal Nature Communications on October 31st, 2017. A story that identifies the embryonic origin of FAPs (Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors), the population of adult muscle mesenchymal stem cells that differentiate into adipocyte and give fibrosis in pathological expectations...
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October 11 2017
L’équipe 15 de Marion Leboyer et de Stéphane Jamain a mis en évidence un variant génétique associé à la fois aux troubles bipolaires à début précoce et à la schizophrénie. Les résultats sont publiés dans « The Journal of Neuroscience, 2 October 2017, 1040-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1040-17.2017 ». SNAP25 (pour synaptosomal associated protein) est une protéine essentielle […]
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September 13 2017
The IMRB welcomes applications from outstanding candidates interested in translational research, including basic research and pathophysiology, in preclinical animal models, clinical studies and innovative biotherapy approaches. The candidates should be dynamic and qualified investigators with strong track records, and are expected to apply for competitive funding. Applications from both Junior investigators (to establish a new […]
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February 15 2016
After receiving a transplant of stem cells in the penis, 12 patients with severe erectile dysfunction found significant improvements in the quality of sexual intercourse
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February 9 2016
January 26, 2016, Paris, France and Lausanne, Switzerland. The European Commission has granted over 22 million Euros to the European HIV Vaccine Alliance (EHVA) to develop
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January 7 2016
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, a meeting was held for the first time at IMRB to present its technological facilities to local industrials
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November 12 2015
José Cohen (co-head of the team “Renal Immunopathology and Immunomodulation in Transplantation”) has been awarded the Great Price of the French Academy of Sciences “Cellular Therapy and Regenerative Medicine” in the “Clinical and translational Research” category. This international Price created in 2012 by the Fondation Générale de Santé is placed under the patronage of the Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur […]
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October 16 2015
Laurent Cleret de Langavant 's studies (from the Interventional Neuropsychology team headed by A-C Bachoud-Lévi) published in PloS One have been cited in the INSERM journal Science et Santé.
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August 10 2015
We work for several years with Pr. Jim Grotberg the University of Michigan (Biomedical Engineering Department) on various aspects of transport in the lung airways. The surfactant replacement therapy is a technique that involves administering intratracheally by the surfactant that lines the deep areas of the lungs and allows it to change the volume evenly […]
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