News
December 27 2019
46,000 people suffer cardiac arrest every year in France. Researchers from EnvA, the University of Paris Est Créteil, Inserm and the Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research, including Professor Renaud Tissier (Bijan Ghaleh team), and also Professor Philippe Micheau from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, are proposing a new approach to better manage them and […]
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November 26 2019
Le Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) et l’ANRS sont heureux d’annoncer avec leurs partenaires Novasep et GTP Technology, la production et la libération du premier lot clinique d’un vaccin anti-VIH pour une première administration chez l’Homme. Le partenariat établi entre le VRI, l’ANRS, Novasep et GTP Technology en septembre 2016 a permis la […]
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November 14 2019
Marielle Bréau, a post-doctoral fellow at the Marseille cancer research centre, received the thesis prize from the University of Paris Est for the Doctoral School of Life and Health Sciences (SVS) on 5 November. This prize rewards his work during his PhD at the IMRB on “Cellular senescence and pathophysiology of chronic lung diseases: […]
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September 19 2019
Under the chairmanship of Sir Malcolm Grant (recently President of the NHS England) and on the proposal of an international jury, the Prime Minister has selected 24 winners of the second wave of calls for projects “University Schools of Research“. Among them, EUR LIVE aims to address the problem of vulnerability by […]
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September 11 2019
M. Panel, D. MOrin, B. Ghaleh (équipe 3), I. Ruiz, H. Ahmed-Belkacem, J-M. Pawlotsky Hepatic ischemia is a complication of liver surgery that involves mitochondrial dysfunction resulting from the opening of mitochondrial permeability transition pores (mPTP). Cyclophiline D (PPIF or CypD) is a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase that regulates the mPTP opening in the […]
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August 1 2019
Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Emmanuelle Wargon, Secretary of State to the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy and Finance and Guillaume Boudy, Secretary General for Investment, distinguished 140 winners of the i-Lab and i-Nov Innovation Competitions, […]
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July 3 2019
Cindy Orvain, team 16 of the IMRB, has recently obtained her thesis with success. It is on the cover of the internal magazine Inserm In Vivo* in June 2019. She recounts her journey as part of the 16 team she joined in 2015, where she studies the regulation of effective responses of T cells and […]
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May 24 2019
Autonomic nerve fibres in the tumour microenvironment regulate cancer initiation and dissemination, but how nerves emerge in tumours is currently unknown. Here we show that neural progenitors from the central nervous system that express doublecortin (DCX+) infiltrate prostate tumours and metastases, in which they initiate neurogenesis. In mouse models of prostate cancer, oscillations of […]
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April 30 2019
A recent study conducted by Audrey Der Vartanian (post-doctoral researcher) and Marianne Gervais-Taurel (CNRS researcher) in the team of Pr. Frédéric Relaix (Team 10, IMRB) reveals that the transcription factor PAX3 protects a subpopulation of adult skeletal muscle stem cells in response to chronic exposure to an environmental pollutant, dioxin, with harmful effects on health. […]
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March 26 2019
Professor Vincent Audard (Nephrology and Transplantation Department, IMRB Team 21) as coordinator of the Rare Disease Reference Centre (CRMR) “Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome” was presented on Tuesday 12 March 2019 during the Kidney Foundation gala (http://www.fondation-du-rein.org/) a research grant to set up within the 5 CRMR sites (Henri Mondor coordinator site, Robert Débré, Necker, Tenon and […]
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February 13 2019
Stéphane Palfi, head of Team 14 at our Institute, will be René Frydman’s guest on France Culture’s “Matières à penser” program, dedicated this week to high hopes in medicine and new ideas. He will talk about the promises of stimulating the spinal cord to make paralytics walk again, but also about possible difficulties of experimentation […]
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January 29 2019
It is around a cake of kings and surrounded by a large number of members of the IMRB, Mrs Camille Chaudonneret our regional delegate of Inserm Paris 6, as well as some members of the Faculty of Medicine, that our director Jorge Boczkowski presented us his wishes and encouragement for this year 2019 which […]
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December 12 2018
A recent study conducted by Laura Braud, post-doctoral fellow in the Equipe directed by Roberto Motterlini (Equipe 12, IMRB), reveals that carbon monoxide (CO) improves insulin resistance and glucose metabolism in obese mice. The study appeared in the November issue of JCI Insight (Link: https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/123485). Braud and colleagues showed that oral administration of a compound […]
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December 5 2018
EHVA (European HIV Vaccine Alliance) announces the start of the EHVA T01 / ANRS VRI05 trial. EHVA-T01 / ANRS VRI05, a double-blind, randomized, Phase I/II trial, will evaluate the combination of experimental HIV therapeutic vaccines and an investigational immunotherapy drug in people living with HIV in six European countries – France, Germany, Spain, Italy, […]
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November 27 2018
Claire Leibler, a nephrologist specializing in kidney transplantation, received the thesis prize from the University of Paris Est for the Doctoral School of Life and Health Sciences (SVS) on November 6. On December 2, she will also receive the Aguirre-Basulado / Robin Prize for Medicine, one of the fifty solemn prizes awarded by […]
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November 21 2018
The majority of adult stem cells are sustained quiescent throughout the lifetime of an organism. A central quest in the stem cell field is to identity the signals that maintain quiescence. Characterization of those signals and their modes of interaction is a major challenge but also a prerequisite for the use of stem cells in […]
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