Team

Véronique Godot, PhD in Life and Health Sciences (University of Burgundy and Franche-Comté), has been a full professor of Immunology at the University of Paris-Est Créteil since 2012. She has been directing the Master’s program in Vaccinology: From Basic Immunology to Social Sciences in Health since 2015 and has co-directed the Master’s program in Immunology since 2012. From 2015 to 2016, she was a visiting professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina (USA). She conducts research on mononuclear phagocytic cells and dendritic cells. She is currently focusing on how these immune cells are dysregulated and contribute to immunopathologies, including HIV-1 infection, IgE-mediated allergies, and septic shock. She has developed various mouse models, including transgenic mouse models and humanized mouse models reconstituted with human immune cells. In addition, she is developing new immune system-modulating therapies targeting host factors or dendritic cells. In recent years, her research has helped identify the contribution of glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) expression by dendritic cells in the induction of regulatory T cells and the development of tolerance. She has generated genetically modified mice to study this tolerance mechanism in vivo in mouse models of human diseases.