Laurie Menger, PhD
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Laurie Menger is an INSERM researcher and young group leader of the Advanced-T cell therapy team (U1015) at Gustave Roussy (GR), specialized in Onco/Immunobiotechnology. She has built her career on the use of multidisciplinary approaches to conduct immunotherapeutic projects leading to translational development.
During her PhD at Gustave Roussy, she developed high-throughput videomicroscopy screening for discovering immunogenic cell death inducers among FDA-approved drugs in Guido Kroemer’s lab. At UCL cancer Institute, she set up clinically relevant protocols to inactivate immunosuppressive molecules and strengthen adoptive T cells therapies with Sergio Quezada and Karl Peggs. In 2015, she was awarded with the John Goldman prize (Blood and Marrow transplantation British Society, UK). At Institut Curie, thanks to the prestigious MSCA fellowship, she established genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 editing of CD4 T-cell to better understand their specific regulation with Olivier Lantz. In 2019, she obtained financial support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche Jeune chercheur (ANRJCJC) Grant and in 2021 received an ATIP-Avenir (starting package, INSERM) and Gustave Roussy starting package.
Education
- HDR (Habilitation à diriger la recherche/ Université de Paris), 2022
- Postdoctoral Researcher-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellow INSERM U932, Université PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) / Institut Curie/ Paris/ France, Supervisors: O.Lantz MD-PhD and S. Amigorena, PhD 2016-2018
- Postdoctoral Researcher FP7 grant fellow Immune Regulation and Tumour Immunotherapy Group, University College of London (UCL) Cancer Institute/ London, United Kingdom Supervisors: K. Peggs MD-PhD and S. Quezada, PhD 2012-2015
- PhD in Oncology-immunology (Summa cum laude)/ Université Paris Saclay INSERM UMR848 Apoptosis, Cancer and Immunity/ Gustave Roussy Supervisor: Guido Kroemer MD-PhD 2009-2012
- Master of Cell and Gene therapy INSERM UMR1009 Normal & Pathological Hematopoiesis, Gustave Roussy Supervisor: William Vainchenker MD-PhD 2007-2009
Honors and Awards
- 2015 - John Goldman prize (Blood and Marrow transplantation British Society, London, UK)
- 2013 - UCL Cancer Institute prize, Annual Conference London, UK
- 2012 - Young Researchers prize in Life Sciences (YRLS) Paris, France
Memberships of Scientific Societes
- 2020-current Member of French Society of cancer Immunotherapy (FITC)
- 2019-current MSCA-Individual Fellowship-2019 Evaluator, H2020
- 2016-current Member of French Society of Immunology (SFI)
Selected invited talks
- ESMO invited by Sebastian Kobold. 2024 Geneva, Switzerland
- CAR-T international symposium invited by Suman Mitra and Yakhoub Abba. 2024 Lille, France
- CIMT Summer School 2024 invited by Markus Mauerer. 2024, Portugal
- BSI seminar Cambridge UK invited by Rahul Roychoudhuri. 2024, Cambridge UK
- Saint Louis seminar, Paris invited by Pierre Tonerre. 2024, Paris, France
- Let’sImmun Seminar invited by Sebastian Kobold. 2024, Munich, Germany
- CAR-T meeting invited by Sandrine Rouland. 2024, CIML Marseille, France
- CAR-T international symposium invited by Suman Mitra and Yakhoub Abba. 2023 Lille, Fance
Research Interests
- T cells biology
- Immunobiotechnology
- Cell therapy