Prof Gilles Lambert

Dr Gilles Lambert
Diabète athérothrombose Thérapies Réunion Océan Indien (UMR DéTROI U1188) – Université de La
Réunion-CYROI- 2, rue Maxime Rivière 97490 Sainte Clotilde – La Réunion – France
Gilles Lambert is Professor in Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the University of La Réunion Medical
School (France) and a principal investigator at Inserm UMR1188 DéTROI.
Dr Lambert was awarded a PhD in Pathophysiology from the University of Paris in 1998. He
specialized in lipidology, first as a post-doctoral fellow at the Molecular Disease Branch of the
National Institutes of Health (Bethesda MD, USA) and as a senior research fellow at the Heart
Research Institute (Sydney, NSW, Australia).
Since 2003, Dr. Lambert has conducted seminal research projects on PCSK9, a major inhibitor of the
LDL receptor. He has received several competitive research grants in Australia (NH&MRC) and in
France (ANR) to study the cardiovascular benefits and potential side effects of PCSK9 inhibition.