Carole Hénique

On Monday 22 April 2024, Carole Hénique was elected Vice-rector of Research and of the Research Committee.

Carole Hénique was recruited as a lecturer in molecular biology (CNU64) in 2015 at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), before being appointed University Professor at the Faculty of Health in 2022. She is a member of the Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB, Inserm U955) laboratory, where she leads a research group studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of damage to the renal glomerulus in various contexts (nephrooncology, ageing, obesity/type 2 diabetes).

Carole Hénique has been appointed to a Fundamental Chair in Biology/Medicine/Health at the Institut Universitaire de France in 2021 (2021-2026 delegation) to help develop high-level research in universities. She has a keen interest in research leadership and was in charge of the IMRB’s scientific research leadership committee from 2017 to 2022. She is also involved in doctoral policy, being a member of the Life and Health Sciences ED (ED402) board as director of studies since 2017 and an appointed member of the Doctoral Training Council – Paris-Est Sup since 2021.