Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are becoming a relevant model for the study of liver metabolic diseases once differentiated into hepatocyte-like cells (HLC), and it has been shown that they can faithfully recapitulate autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH). PCSK9 is a critical modulator of cholesterol homeostasis, and quickly became a hot target for ADH pharmacological treatment strategies. However, current cellular models to further decipher the role of PCSK9 in ADH are limited, especially to study the PCSK9 gain of function mutation S127R, which seems to interfere with LDL cholesterol homeostasis intracellularly by still unknown mechanisms.

(From CHOPIN project)


Grégory MAUBON

Grégory MAUBON is Chief Data Officer and digital coordinator at HCS Pharma, a biotech startup focused in high content screening and complex diseases. He manages IT missions and leads digital usages linked to company needs. He is also a Augmented Reality Evangelist (presenter and lecturer) since 2008, where he created www.augmented-reality.fr and founded in 2010 RA'pro (the augmented reality promotion association). He helped many companies (in several domains) to define precisely their augmented reality needs and supported them in the implementation.

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Meet me in High Content Analysis and 3D screening Conference in Boston next week! | HCS-pharma · November 3, 2017 at 9:06 am

[…] this conference, I will present a poster on our collaborative work with Dr Karim Si-Tayeb, researcher from Institut du Thorax (CHOPIN […]

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