BIOGRAPHY

Anne Monique Nuyt is a neonatologist at CHU Ste-Justine, Université de Montréal. She received her medical degree and pediatric residency training at the Université de Sherbrooke (QC, Canada), and her subspecialty in Neonatal-Perinatal medicine from McGill University (93). Supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, she pursued a research fellowship at the University of Iowa and at the College de France-INSERM. She was appointed (98) as clinician-scientist at the CHU Ste Justine – Université de Montréal, where she is currently Professor of Pediatrics, Head of the Division of Neonatology, Head of the Feto-maternal and Neonatal Research Axis of the CHU Ste Justine Research Center and Associated Scientific Director for CARTaGENE. Her research is mainly supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Dr Nuyt was awarded number of prices for her work and was President of the Quebec Hypertension Society. Dr Nuyt studies mechanisms of developmental programming of hypertension and cardiovascular dysfunction in children and adults who were born preterm, with emphasis on the role of oxidative stress and of adverse antenatal and neonatal conditions. Her translational research program spans from experimental animal work, to clinical as well as epidemiological studies.