Research laboratories

The overall vocation of the unit is to promote fundamental and clinical research in the fields of cancer, nutrition, lipid biology, and cardiometabolic risk. Over the last years, and beyond common administration of the unit, one main duty was to favour interactions between distinct subgroups in order :
• to increase the cohesion
• to set up and extend common facilities
• to support translational research and joined programs involving several teams as well as clinical departments of the University Hospital and the CGFL anti-cancer center,
• to welcome new/additional groups coming from both the University of Burgundy and outside
• to create a well-identified specificity at the interface of cancer biology and metabolic disease.

The unit is organized into 8 research teams:

• Chemotherapy, lipid metabolism and anti-tumor immune response
• Gene regulation in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis
• Thermal shock proteins: cell death, cell differentiation and tumorigenic propertiesCarmen Garrido
• Epidemiology and clinical research in digestive oncology
• Oxidative stress and cardiovascular risk: fundamental and clinical interaction
• Physiopathology of dyslipidemia
• Detection and metabolism of lipids and food contaminants in the oro-digestive sphere : effects on health and eating behaviour
• Lipid transfer proteins and lipoprotein metabolism