Chantal Chenu PhD, HDR

Chantal graduated from Lyon University with a degree in Biochemistry. She conducted her Ph.D. research in Professor Dave Roodman‘s laboratory in San Antonio, TX, the USA on osteoclast differentiation from bone marrow. She then joined Professor Pierre Delmas’s group in Lyon (INSERM Unit 403, Lyon, France) where her work focused on the biochemical and functional characterization of several bone matrix proteins.

She obtained a senior research position with INSERM France in 1991 and started her own research group aimed at investigating the role of the nervous system in the control of bone development and turnover. She moved to the Royal Veterinary College in 2003 and obtained in 2006 a Senior Lectureship position in the Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences at the RVC. She was appointed to a Professorship in 2017.