Catherine Picart

Catherine Picart is a research director, head of the Biosanté joint research unit (INSERM, CEA, Univ. Grenoble Alpes), and head of the 'Biomimetics and Regenerative Medicine' (BRM) team. A biomedical engineer, she was a post-doctoral researcher in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, a lecturer in Strasbourg and then a professor at the universities of Montpellier and Grenoble.) She has been a junior and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Over the years, she and her team have worked on cellular biophysics, biomimetics and tissue engineering. She has been the winner of four European Research Council projects: a "Biomim" team-building grant in 2011 and three proof-of-concept projects leading to societal applications in bone regeneration and the development of biomimetic surfaces for studying human cell signalling.

She is the (co-)author of 140 scientific publications and a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals in the field of (bio)materials. She was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2016, and the Emilia Valori prize for the application of science in 2019.