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Member Profile
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Name:Dr. Maria-Christina Zennaro, MD, PhD
Title:Research Director
Company:INSERM
Membership:Full
Bio:Maria-Christina Zennaro is Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), head of the team “Genetic mechanisms of aldosterone related disorders” at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center and associated investigator at the Genetics Department of the European Hospital Georges Pompidou (HEGP) in Paris, France.
She received her MD and board certification in Endocrinology at the University of Padova (Italy) and completed her PhD in Molecular Endocrinology at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (France). Her research team has developed a genome-wide strategy to explore the genetics and genomics of aldosterone related disorders, in order to generate knowledge translatable to patient’s care. She coordinates the genetic diagnosis on pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 and primary aldosteronism at the genetics laboratory of the HEGP, which is the French referral center for the genetic diagnosis of these diseases.
Maria-Christina Zennaro is coordinator of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 research and innovation project ENS@T-HT aiming at the development of an omics-based approach for patients with endocrine hypertension (www.ensat-ht.eu). She is president of the European Section of Aldosterone council (ESAC)-France, member of the Executive Committee of the International Aldosterone Conference, and member of the European Society of Hypertension - Centre of Excellence for Hypertension at HEGP. She has been appointed 15th Richard Underwood Memorial Visiting Professor at the University of Harvard in 2014. She has been awarded for her work by the Italian Societies of Internal Medicine, Hypertension, Endocrinology, the French Society of Nephrology, the International Aldosterone Conference and received the Society for Endocrinology European Medal 2018.
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