FIRENDO Research Symposium 2026
09h20-09h30
Introduction
Annabel BERTHON (Research Working Group Coordinator) - Luisa BRUNO (FIRENDO Scientific Project Officer)
09h30-9h55
Overview of Organoids
Laurent POULAIN - Audrey FERRAND (RIBBON Consortium – National Network for Organoid Production and Biobanking)
9h55 - 10h20
Establishment of Fetal Thyroid Organoids as a Model for Thyroid Development
Dulanjalee KARIYAWASAM (MCU-PH, INSERM U1016 - Équipe Lehuen / Beltrand; Service d'Endocrinologie, gynécologie, diabétologie pédiatriques - hôpital universitaire Necker - Enfants Malades)
10h20-10h45
Pituitary Organoids
Pauline ROMANET (MCU-PH, Aix Marseille Université - INSERM - MMG UMR 1251 - APHM - La Timone University Hospital - Laboratory of Molecular Biology GEnOPé, Marseille)
11h05 - 11h30
Adrenocortical Organoids: Recapitulating Development and Modelling Tumours
Lucas BOUYS (Postdoctoral Researcher, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences – Imperial College London)
11h30 - 11h55
Organs and Organoids-on-a-Chip: Applications to Type 1 Diabetes
Emily TUBBS (Researcher, CEA - Université Grenoble Alpes)
11h55 - 12h20
Testicular Organoids and Animal Models: Where Do We Stand?
Nathalie BEAUJEAN / Ingrid PLOTTON (DR/ PUPH, INRAE - Unité 1208; médecine et biologie reproduction - HCL Unité 1208)
12h20 - 12h45
Developing 3D Organoids to Understand the Mechanisms of Human Gonad Formation and Its Pathologies
Anu BASHAMBOO (Researcher, Institut Pasteur – Unité de Génétique du développement humain)
14h15 - 14h35
Use of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients with Monogenic Diabetes
Estelle AUDRAIN (CCU-AH, AP-HP - Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière - Service de Diabétologie)
14h35 - 14h55
McCune-Albright Syndrome: Diagnostic Challenges of a Mosaic Disorder
Camille GIANNETTI (Resident Physician, Laboratoire de Biologie Molécualire GEnOPé; Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille AP-HM)
14h55 - 15h15
Development of an Adrenal Cell Model from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs) to Validate Novel Variants
Clement JANOT / Florence ROUCHER ( MCU-PH / PHU, Laboratoire de Biochimie Biologie Moléculaire - Unité Médicale de Biologie Endocrinienne - Hospices Civils de Lyon; Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est - Lyon 1 Université; Inserm - Institut Cellules Souche et Cerveau, Groupe Plateforme StemGam)
15h15 - 15h35
When the Genome Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story: CRISPR Reveals the Function of APOB Variants in Hypobetalipoproteinemia
Mathilde DI FILIPPO (PH, Hospices Civils de Lyon)
15h35 - 15h55
AM2P: Assessment of Prognosis and Quality of Life in Patients Hospitalized for Early-Onset Anorexia Nervosa
Manon STUDER / Coline STORDEUR (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident/ PH, Service de Psychiatrie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent - Centre d'Excellence InovAND)
15h55 - 16h15
Genome 2025 and Pituitary Deficiency: What Can We Expect?
Karine AOUCHICHE (PH, AP-HM - Hôpital de la Timone Enfants - Service de Pédiatrie multidisciplinaire)
16h35 - 16h50
EndoCush ERN: A European Network Investigating Non-Hormonal Biomarkers of Glucocorticoid Excess and Its Complications
Guillaume ASSIE (Professor, Endocrinologie Hôpital Cochin APHP; Université Paris Cité Inserm Institut Cochin; chaire IA Santé UPC)
16h50 - 17h05
The Role of Androgens in Sexual Dimorphism of the Mouse Adrenal Gland: Understanding the Female Predominance of Adrenocortical Disorders
Elliot WEST (PhD student, iGReD - Institut de Génétique, Reproduction et Développement - Université Clermont Auvergne)
17h05 - 17h20
The Clinical Usefulness of the Trouillas Classification: 2b or Not 2b?
Anna CARRETTI (Doctor, Hospices Civils de Lyon ; Sapienza University of Rome Department of Experimental Medicine)

