Team

Dozens of researchers, post-doctoral fellows, engineers, administrative staff
and students have contributed to the EGEA cohort over the past 30 years.
The current actors of the EGEA cohort are presented here.

Seminar in Montpellier (La Grande Motte, France) in 2002

Seminar in Autrans, France in 2006

Seminar in Saint Germain au Mont d'Or, France in 2013

Seminar in Paris, France in 2019

Seminar in Biviers (Grenoble), France in 2022

Investigator and research program leaders

Judith Garcia-Aymerich

is a research director at IsGLOBAL in Barcelona. Within the EGEA cohort, she co-coordinates research related to diet and physical activity.

Emmanuelle Bouzigon

is researcher at Inserm in Paris. Within the EGEA cohort, she co-coordinates the research program on genetics, epigenetics and metabolomics.

Sébastien Chanoine

is a lecturer and hospital pharmacy practitioner at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital. Within the EGEA cohort, he coordinates a research program in pharmaco-epidemiology.

Florence Demenais

is a research director at Inserm in Paris. Within the EGEA cohort, she co-coordinates the research program on genetics, epigenetics and metabolomics.

Marie-Hélène Dizier

is a researcher at Inserm, Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she is co-responsible for genetic studies.

Orianne Dumas

is a researcher at Inserm, Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she co-coordinates the research program on occupational and domestic exposures to cleaning products.

Johanna Lepeule

is a researcher at Inserm, Grenoble. Within the EGEA cohort, she is in charge of coordinating aspects related to climate and air pollution.

Bénédicte Leynaert

is a researcher at Inserm, Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she is co-coordinating research program related to diet, physical activity, and hormonal events in women.

Nicole Le Moual

is a research engineer at Inserm in Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she coordinates the research program on occupational and domestic exposures to cleaning products.

Rachel Nadif

is a researcher at Inserm, Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she is in charge of research programs on inflammatory phenotypes of asthma, and on biological markers of interest in asthma.

Valérie Siroux

is a research director at Inserm in Grenoble. She is the principal investigator of the EGEA cohort since 2013 (following Francine Kauffmann who was Inserm research director and who coordinated the study since 1991). Within the EGEA cohort she is in charge of projects aiming to clarify the phenotypic heterogeneity of asthma and to study the links between asthma and other health parameters. She co-coordinates research on the exposome.

Raphaëlle Varraso

is a researcher at Inserm, Villejuif. Within the EGEA cohort, she is in charge of coordinating research program related to diet and physical activity.

EGEA4 center managers

Pascal Chanez

Professor of Pneumology at the Marseille University Hospital. He is in charge of the Marseille centre for the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4).

Bruno Degano

Professor of Pneumology at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital. He is in charge of the Grenoble centre for the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4).

Pascal Demoly

Professor of Pneumology at the University Hospital of Montpelliers. He is in charge of the Montpellier centre for the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4).

Gilles Devouassoux

Professor of Pneumology at the Hospices Civils de Lyon. He is in charge of the Lyon centre for the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4).

Camille Taillé

Professor of Pneumology at the Bichat Hospital in Paris. She is in charge of the Paris centre for the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4).

Current team in charge of data collection and management

Maïlys Barbagallo

is an engineering assistant at Inserm in Grenoble. In the framework of the 30-year follow-up of the EGEA cohort (EGEA4), she is in charge of recontacting the participants of the cohort.

Anne Boudier

is a study engineer at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital. She is in charge of database management, data processing and website maintenance.

Béatrice Faraldo

is an assistant engineer at Inserm in Villejuif. She has been involved in the organization of the annual EGEA seminar for many years.

Sarah Lyon-Caen

is a research engineer at Inserm. She coordinates the regulatory aspects of the 30-year follow-up (EGEA4) of the EGEA cohort.

Hamida Mohamdi

is a study engineer at Inserm in Paris. He is in charge of the management of the genetic, epigenetic and metabolomic databases and participates in the processing of these data.

Laurent Orsi

is a study engineer at Inserm in Villejuif. He is in charge of database management and participates in data processing.

Joane Quentin

is a clinical research associate at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital. She is in charge of the logistic coordination of the 30-year follow-up (EGEA4) of the EGEA cohort. She participated in the data collection of each phase of the EGEA study for the Grenoble centre.

EGEA Cooperative group

Coordination: V Siroux (epidemiology, PI since 2013); F Demenais (genetics); I Pin (clinical aspects); R Nadif (biology); F Kauffmann (PI 1992-2012).

Respiratory epidemiology: Inserm ex-U 700, Paris: M Korobaeff (Egea1), F Neukirch (Egea1); Inserm ex-U 707, Paris: I Annesi-Maesano (Egea1-2); Inserm U 1018, Villejuif: O Dumas, F Kauffmann, N Le Moual, R Nadif, MP Oryszczyn (Egea1-2), R Varraso; Inserm U 1209 Grenoble: J Lepeule, V Siroux.

Genetics: Inserm ex-U 393, Paris: J Feingold; Inserm UMR 1124, Paris: E Bouzigon, MH Dizier, F Demenais; CNG, Evry: I Gut (now CNAG, Barcelona, Spain), M Lathrop (now Univ McGill, Montreal, Canada).

Clinical centers: Grenoble: I Pin, C Pison; Lyon: D Ecochard (Egea1), F Gormand, Y Pacheco; Marseille: D Charpin (Egea1), D Vervloet (Egea1-2); Montpellier: J Bousquet; Paris Cochin: A Lockhart (Egea1), R Matran (now in Lille); Paris Necker: E Paty (Egea1-2), P Scheinmann (Egea1-2); Paris-Trousseau: A Grimfeld (Egea1-2), J Just.

Data and quality management: Inserm ex-U155, Paris: J Hochez (Egea1); Inserm U 1018, Villejuif: N Le Moual, L Orsi; Inserm ex-U780, Villejuif: C Ravault (Egea1-2); Inserm ex-U794, Evry: N Chateigner (Egea1-2); Inserm UMR 1124, Paris: H Mohamdi; Inserm U1209, Grenoble: A Boudier, J Quentin (Egea1-2).