A colleague rewarded for her research

Published on July 18, 2019 in Search

Caroline DESMETZ, Senior Lecturer at the Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences UFR, recently won a 20,000-euro research prize from the French Nutrition Society (SFN) to fund her research project, conducted within the Faculty's " Biocommunication en cardiométabolique " laboratory(BC2M, EA7288). The aim of this project is to understand how it is possible to prevent cardiac fibrosis, responsible for numerous cardiac problems during the course of a pathology that is very common in industrialized countries: metabolic syndrome, which currently affects between 25% and 45% of men over the age of 40. It is currently very difficult to treat. Prevention is therefore very interesting in this sense.

These grants are open to researchers under 40 years of age. This award will enable him to understand more precisely the involvement of a process called endothelial-mesenchymal transition in cardiac fibrosis, and its prevention by a salt-depleted diet.