Refractory Celiac Disease (eBook)

Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, MD, PhD,  is INSERM Research Director of Exceptional Class since 2011, head of the INSERM laboratory of Intestinal Immunity since 1998. This laboratory has become part of Institut Imagine in 2014. NCB has longstanding interest in gut human immunopathology, notably in the field of celiac disease and refractory celiac disease. Her work in this field has been awarded Prix Charles Debray in Gastroenterology (1990), Prix Rosa Lamarca for Clinical Research (2001), Prix de Recherche INSERM (2014) and Celiac Tampere Prize (2018). She was awarded several 'Interface contracts from Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris to support her contribution to innovative clinical research in the field of adult severe enteropathies and, in 2013, an advanced grant from the European Council to develop a project on early onset enteropathies. She has been member of the executive Committee of Imagine,  of several National (INSERM) or International boards (Society for Mucosal Immunology, Society for Research on Celiac Disease) and is presently the coordinator of the Transversal Program of Inserm on Microbiota. She has published 216 articles in Pubmed with H index of 67. She has notably published as senior or cosenior author articles in Gastroenterology Gut, , Immunity and Nature. She has licensed anti-human CD103 antibody, which stains the normal and abnormal intraepithelial lymphocytes of refractory celiac disease.