Launois Pascal
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Biochemistry
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Pascal Launois, a French national, was born in 1957. He studied medicine at the University of Reims and completed a doctorate in immunology at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon. His scientific background led him to work in various Pasteur institutes in New Caledonia, Senegal, French Guiana and Paris.
Research Interest
From 2001 to 2003, he headed a research laboratory at the Institut Pasteur de Cayenne in French Guiana, where he continued work on the immunology of the Leishmania parasite .
Publications
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Tacchini-Cottier F, Weinkopff T, Launois P. (2012). Does T helper differentiation correlate with resistance or susceptibility to infection with L. major? Some insights from the murine model. Frontiers in immunology. 2012;3.
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Ives A, Masina S, Castiglioni P, Prevel F, Revaz-Breton M, et al., (2014). MyD88 and TLR9 dependent immune responses mediate resistance to Leishmania guyanensis infections, irrespective of Leishmania RNA virus burden. PloS one. 2014 May 6;9(5):e96766.
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Hartley MA, Bourreau E, Rossi M, Castiglioni P, Eren RO, et al., (2016). Leishmaniavirus-dependent metastatic leishmaniasis is prevented by blocking IL-17A. PLoS pathogens. 2016 Sep 22;12(9):e1005852.
