Nathalie M. Delzenne

Nathalie M. Delzenne, Full Professor, is co-leader of the Research Group in Metabolism and Nutrition at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain- Woluwe, Belgium). After a PhD in Pharmaceutical sciences obtained in 1991, a post-doctoral certificate in Nutrition (Lausanne, CH), Nathalie Delzenne performed a post-doctoral stay at the Pasteur Institute in Lille (France), working on the molecular aspects of lipoproteins. She then joined the lab of Professor Pascal Ferré (Inserm, Paris) to study nutrients-gene interactions in the regulation of lipid metabolism. She started an academic carrier at UCLouvain, and has been pioneer in the discovery of nutrients (prebiotics) targeting the gut microbiota to control of nutritional disorders (obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, cancer cachexia, addiction to alcohol). She has been nominated as a Highly Cited Researcher (Thompson Reuter) yearly from 2016. She has published more than 350 papers, as first of last author. She has been involved in many international projects in nutrition and health related to the microbiota (FP7 MyNewGut project; ERA-HDHL FiberTAG project). She has been awarded international prizes such as the Lucien Dautrebande Award in pathophysiology (2016). She has been invited as speaker in more than 50 congresses for the last 5 years, including Keystone symposia (one as scientific organizer in 2018), Sir Cuthbertson lecturer at ESPEN (European society for clinical nutrition and metabolism) (2019), International Congress in Obesity, European Congress for the Study of Diabetes... She is member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium and is a Founding member and Past-President of the Belgian Nutrition Society. She has been involved as expert in a lot of scientific evaluation committees. She is currently chair of the Scientific committee of ESPEN. For further details on research team and activities https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ldri/metabolism-and-nutrition-mnut.html