Karin Clément (MetaCardis Lead PI) was featured on Télématin on France 2 on 19th June 2013. She highlighted the potential role of gut microbes in obestity and how MetaCardis aims to understand this relationship.
Brigitte-Fanny Cohen (for France 2) covered MetaCardis and its area on Télématin on both 10th and 19th June 2013. The first feature on the premier breakfast show highlighted a couple of relevant Nature papers about the role of the gut microbiota in obesity and that imbalances in certain bacterial species may be involved.
The second feature on the 19th June 2013 highlighted MetaCardis and what the study aims to achieve in terms of understanding the role of gut microbiota in obesity and cardiometabolic diseases. Karine Clement gave a short interview in the show.
Find out more here: http://www.france2.fr/emissions/telematin/sante/flore-intestinale-et-obesite_84135
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement HEALTH-F4-2012-305312.