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Dr Christophe Ravaud

Fellow, Junior Research Fellow

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

PhD (University Nice Cote d’Azur)

I studied Genetics and Development at University Nice Cote d’Azur, in France where I completed my PhD from 2013 to 2017.

My PhD research was about the side effects of the HAART therapy on the human adipose stem cells, focusing on their self-renewal and differentiation into white and brown adipocytes. After completing my PhD, I moved to Oxford and started to work as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Prof Paul Riley’s group at DPAG and Oxstem, an Oxford spin-out which plans to develop small molecule drugs that can activate repair mechanisms that already exist within the body.

In May 2020, I joined an MRC programme in Prof Paul Riley’s group to study immunomodulation following cardiac injury. More specifically, I am investigating cardiac lymphangiogenesis, which occurs post-myocardial infarction in order to optimise the local injury environment for tissue repair after a heart attack.