Sandrine Horman 12th International Meeting on AMPK 2023

Sandrine Horman

Sandrine Horman is Research Professor at the University of Louvain Medical School (UCLouvain, Belgium). After a PhD degree in Biological Sciences obtained from the Free University of Brussels, she spent 7 years within the de Duve Institute (UCLouvain) and focused her research on the identification of new targets of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the cardiovascular system. She became a principal investigator (FNRS Research Associate) in 2008, and then set up a research group within the Pole of Cardiovascular Research (Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, UCLouvain). Her main objective is to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in atherothrombosis and thrombo-inflammation, adverse post-infarction fibrosis and heart failure. In the last decade, she has built up expertise on intracellular signaling, platelet, endothelial cell and cardiac fibroblast biology, in vivo models of sepsis and myocardial fibrosis. The focus on translational research, with a basic research team strongly connected to the clinical department of cardiovascular diseases, is a key feature of her work.