MuSkLE Summer School 2025

From 06/01/2025 to 06/06/2025

Lyon - France


Pr Damien Freyssenet

Pr. Damien Freyssenet is an exercise physiologist and biochemist, Professor at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne. He is currently head of the Deconditioning Reconditioning of skeletal Muscle - Systemic Environment research team at the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité. Damien Freyssenet's research activity focuses on the mechanisms of skeletal muscle deconditioning under physiological (dry immersion) and pathological (cancer, myopathies, sepsis) conditions, as well as on the development of strategies to limit/prevent this deconditioning. Damien Freyssenet has published 61 papers (citations > 6,000, H index 28). Damien Freyssenet is financially supported by the Association Française contre les Myopathies, the Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer, the Ligue contre le Cancer, or the Centre National des Études Spatiales.