Speaker

Vincent Prévot is currently Senior Research Director at the Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and Head of the "Development and Plasticity of the Postnatal Brain" laboratory at the Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Research Center in Lille, France, since 2006. The two principal focuses of his research are the Central Control of Energy Homeostasis and the Neurobiology of Reproduction. Among his recent pioneering studies is the demonstration that tanycytes, specialized ependymoglial cells lining the floor of the third ventricle, transport circulating metabolic signals such as leptin, as well as anti-obesity drugs like liraglutide, across brain barriers into the hypothalamus to regulate energy homeostasis. Additionally, his research highlights the involvement of GnRH neurons in non-reproductive functions.

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