Projects: HUMET Startup
Institutions: Université catholique de Louvain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2040-2448Expertise: Gut microbiota, Akkermansia muciniphila, Obesity, diabetes, Endocannabinoid system, Cell specific KO, Innate immunity, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Insulin resistance, Inflammation
Tools: Animal models, Genetic modification, Microbiology, Integrative physiology, Glucose metabolism, Lipid metabolism, Molecular biology techniques (RNA/DNA/Protein), LPS measurments, Gut microbiota analysis
Professor Patrice D. Cani is researcher from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and group leader in the Metabolism and Nutrition lab at the Louvain Drug Research Institute from the UCL, Brussels, Belgium. He is WELBIO investigator and recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2013 and a PoC ERC Grant 2016. He is laureate of the Baillet-Latour grant for medical research and the international prize of Physiology Lucien Dautrebande. His main research interests are the investigation of interactions ...