Prof Renaud Du Pasquier Prof Caroline Pot
Full Professor Assoc. Prof.
Laboratory activity
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, where all components of the immune system, innate and adaptive, are involved. In addition to genetic factors, environmental ones play a crucial role in triggering this complex disease. In the Laboratories of neuroimmunology, we examine how environmental factors, among which Epstein-Barr virus, gut microbiome or cholesterol metabolites support autoreactivity of B and T cells. To tackle our hypothesis, we use different approaches, including animal models, namely the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, human samples analysis (blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, soon stools) of MS patients and a human in vitro model of MS brain, using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPCS).
