In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Equality between men and women in research remains a subject for discussion: Femmes et recherche biomédicale : le plafond de verre se fissure-t-il enfin ?
The scientific direction of the Institut Cochin is ensured by women of excellent scientific level, and institute recruits young women with exceptional talent, among them, Clotilde Cadart in 2024.
Clotilde Cadart began her medical studies at the Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, during which she joined the Inserm school to discover fundamental research. Through this school and during her doctorate at the Institut Curie in Matthieu Piel's laboratory, she discovered a passion for quantitative biology, and more specifically for the regulation of the size and growth of animal cells. She continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where she combined tools from physics, cell biology and developmental biology to study the regulation of cell size in vivo in vertebrates. Clotilde was recruited as young team leader at the Institut Cochin in 2024.
Her laboratory is developing quantitative approaches in vitro in cells and in vivo in frog embryos to understand the fundamental links between genome size, cell size and energy expenditure, from the cell to the whole organism. She is also a member of the Pathway to Independence programme, where she highlights her contributions to the field of developmental biology.
