Lionel O Mavoungou
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Biography
Lionel O Mavoungou is a First Assistant in Prof Nicolas Mermod’s laboratory at the University of Lausanne. After completing his PhD at the University of Montreal, he specialized in Stem Cell Biology and their interactions with their environment via signaling pathways. He joined Nicolas Mermod’s laboratory in order to work on a gene therapy model focused on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This project integrates gene therapy aspects with stem cell engineering as well as metabolomic and genomic approaches, aiming to enhance stem cells capacity to restore diseased muscle function.