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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Anatomy and Physiology,Gastroenterology |
| Keywords | Obesity, Adipocytes, Inflammation, Progenitor cells, Endothelial cells |
| Honours and awards | 2010: Apollinaire Bouchardat 2002: sofja kovalevskaja award |
Current contact address
| Country | France |
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| City | Toulouse Cedex 4 |
| Institution | Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) |
| Institute | U1048, Team 1 |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Rudi Busse | Physiologie I: Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2001 |
Programme(s)
| 2001 | Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Dr. Anne Bouloumie was the first to identify vascular endothelial cells as a target for the adipocyte-derived cytokine, leptin, and to elucidate the potential role of leptin in regulating the growth and development of new blood vessels. Dr. Bouloumie now intends to identify alternative sources of this obesity-associated cytokine within vascular cells and to demonstrate that macrophages, which play a key role in initiating arteriosclerosis, are also able to generate pathophysiologically relevant amounts of leptin. |