CSS 12 – Basic research on viral hepatitis

Last updated on 11 June 2025

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All basic research aimed at advancing knowledge of viral hepatitis viruses and the diseases they cause, including:

  • Research on the mechanisms by which hepatitis viruses enter their target cells and on the mechanisms of replication of these viruses and cells;
  • Research on virus-host interactions, antiviral immune responses and virus-host genomics;
  • Mechanisms of viro-induced pathogenesis and carcinogenesis secondary to viral hepatitis;
  • Interactions between hepatitis viruses and hepatic lipid metabolism.

Chair


Hélène STRICK MARCHAND
Institut Pasteur, Paris

Vice-Chair


Joachim LUPBERGER
INSERM U1110, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg


Barbara TESTONI
U1052, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, CRCL, Lyon

Members of foreign institutions

Maura DANDRI (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
Viet Loan DAO THI (Medical Faculty, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany)
Jérome GOUTTENOIRE (CHUV Lausanne, Suisse)

Philip MEULEMAN (Hôpital universitaire de Gent, Gent, Belgique)
Christoph NEUMANN HAEFELIN (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Allemagne)
Florian VAN BOMMEL (University Hospital Leipzig, Germany)

Members of French institutions

Abdelhakim AHMED-BELKACEM (Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France)
Anja BÖCKMANN (Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins, Lyon, France)
Stephane BRESSANELLI (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Laurence COCQUEREL (Institut Pasteur of Lille, Lille, France)
Hugues DE ROCQUIGNY (Faculty of Medical Sciences – François Rabelais University, Tours, France)
Xavier HANOULLE (University of Lille – CNRS, Lille, France)
Nabila JABRANE FERRAT (CHU – Centre for Physiopathology, Toulouse Purpan, France)

Julie LUCIFORA (CIRI -INSERM U1111, Lyon, France)
Christine NEUVEUT (Human Genomics Institute, Montpellier, France)
Patrick SOUSSAN (St-Antoine Research Center (CRSA), INSERM-UMRS 938, Paris, France)
Pierre TONNERRE (Saint-Louis Research Institute, Paris, France)
Yu WEI (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Mirjam ZEISEL (Lyon Institute of Hepatology, Lyon, France)