Fajas Coll Lluis
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Physiology
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Prof. Lluis Fajas Coll was born in Barcelona, Spain. He got his Master’s degree in Biology at the University of Barcelona. He did his PhD studies at the Ernst Boehringer Institute in Vienna, Austria. After two post-doctoral trainings in France in the laboratory of Prof. Auwerx at Pasteur Institute in Lille and at the IGMM in Montpellier, he was recruited as Inserm as a scientist at the IGBMC in Strasbourg. He then got an Inserm Avenir young investigator grant. He is now Professor and director of the Department of Physiology at UNIL.
Research Interest
Research interest of views include: Participation of cell cycle regulators in the control of metabolism in normal and cancer cells.Analysis of new target of CDK4 and E2F1 involved in metabolic control. Lipid synthesis inhibition in cancer cells.
Publications
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Denechaud PD, Lopez-Mejia IC, Giralt A, Lai Q, Blanchet E, et al., (2016). E2F1 mediates sustained lipogenesis and contributes to hepatic steatosis. The Journal of clinical investigation. 126: 137.
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Lagarrigue S, Lopez-Mejia IC, Denechaud PD, Escoté X, Castillo-Armengol J, et al., (2016). CDK4 is an essential insulin effector in adipocytes. The Journal of clinical investigation. 126: 335.
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Morzyglod L, Caüzac M, Popineau L, Denechaud PD, Fajas L, et al., (2017). Growth factor receptor binding protein 14 inhibition triggers insulinâ€induced mouse hepatocyte proliferation and is associated with hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology. 65: 1352-1368.
