Professor at Centrale Nantes - Head of a research group, Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology
Pr Sophie Limou is a full professor of human genetics in Nantes. She is the head of an engineering curriculum focusing on genomics and bioinformatics in Centrale Nantes (Digital sciences for life sciences and healthcare specialisation), and the head of an interdisciplinary research group in the Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology (CR2TI).
She trained as a molecular epidemiologist in HIV-related association studies in Paris and then specialized in APOL1-mediated kidney diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Frederick MD (USA).
Her research projects are at the crossroads between human genomics, immunology, bioinformatics and biostatistics. Her current research interests focus on characterizing the immunologic, genetic and HLA determinants of kidney diseases and allograft failure to define new therapeutic targets and predictive biomarkers.
