Hamanou Benachour

Contact:

hamanou.benachour@univ-littoral.fr

Research Unit(s):

MABLab ULR 4490 – University of the Littoral Côte d’Opale

Team-project:

IMmunometabolism – Adipocytes and Bone microenvironment (IMun-AB)

Research discipline:

Natural science: Immunometabolism and antimicrobial peptides, Adipose tissues, Bone tissue and bone marrow cells, Uremic toxins, Cellular and molecular biology, Murine models

Medical and Health Sciences: Bone Marrow Adiposity, Osteoporosis, Obesity, Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease

Expertise:

Immunometabolism, obesity, type 2 diabetes and bone fragility
Adipose tissues and bone alterations
Biology of the Extra-Cellular Matrix
Nanoparticles and biomimetic biomaterials for health and targeted therapies

Projects:

As principal investigator

IMODAMOs: Impact of obesity and type 2 diabetes on bone marrow adiposity and bone fragility – study in a mouse model.
BQR (Bonus Qualité Recherche) ULCO. 2021.

As co-investigator

ODIRC: Obesity, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: a particular metabolic context of bone fragility associated to increased bone marrow adiposity, and of vascular calcifications.
BQR Alliance A2U (Universités ARTOIS – UPJV – ULCO). 2020-2021.
Emerging collaboration between MABLab-ULCO and MP3CV-UPJV Amiens.
ADIPOTOX: Role of bone marrow adipocytes in bone toxicity of chronic kidney disease.
CPER MOSOPS of the Alliance A2U (Universités ARTOIS – UPJV – ULCO). 2023-2024.
In collaboration with MP3CV – UPJV team, Amiens.

Activities

Assistant Professor – Department of Life and Natural Sciences – University of Littoral Côte d’Opale: courses of Histology and Cytology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry,
Reviewer for Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – General Subjects, BMC Cancer, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.
Scientific expert for the CPER MOSOPS research programs – project evaluation of the Calls for Proposals 2022 and 2023.