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MULTI-ORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY IN METABOLIC DISEASES

TEAM LEADER : Clément Cochain

Mail : clement.cochain@inserm.fr

PHONE :+33 1 53 98 80 41

Localisation : 1st floor

Doctoral School: Ecole Doctorale Bio-Sorbonne Paris Cité (ED 562), Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pathology

Objectives

Atherosclerosis, and its complications such as myocardial infarction, represent the leading cause of death worldwide. These cardiovascular diseases are part of a group of cardiometabolic disorders encompassing obesity, hypertension, liver and renal diseases, and diabetes mellitus. While atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction locally affect arteries and the heart, they represent the endpoints of organism-wide processes controlling metabolic homeostasis, blood pressure, and immune homeostasis, thus representing multi-organ diseases. Our research group investigates innate immune cells, in particular monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils, as essential actors in multi-organ disease in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and cardiometabolic disorders. We apply state-of-the art techniques of single-cell profiling and spatial gene expression analysis in experimental models of cardiometabolic diseases, to better understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying innate immune cells contribution to  atherosclerosis and to tissue remodelling after myocardial infarction.

Research Topics

AIM1 - MACROPHAGES IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Clément Cochain

Using single-cell profiling methods, we aim to identify functional regulators of macrophage function in atherosclerosis, and in atherosclerosis aggravated by cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity or diabetes

AIM2 - MACROPHAGES IN SCAR FORMATION AND TISSUE FIBROSIS AFTER MI
Clément Cochain

We investigate how specific populations of resident and recruited macrophages contribute to cardiac repair and fibrosis after a myocardial infarction.

AIM3 - NEUTROPHILS IN CARDIAC REPAIR AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
M. Piollet

We investigate how specific subsets of neutrophils interact with immune and stromal cells in the heart after myocardial infarction and how this affects cardiac repair and fibrosis.