Hélène Cayron's Biography

Hélène Cayron, PhD student, LAAS-CNRS and Innopsys

Hélène Cayron received her Master of Science Degree from the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA), a French Grande Ecole, in 2012. After a first experience in the automotive industry, she was awarded a CIFRE (Industrial Agreement of Training through Research) fellowship to undertake a Ph.D. thesis in applied research within an academic laboratory (LAAS-CNRS) and in collaboration with a private company specialized in the manufacturing of microarray scanners and cutting-edge instruments and automates (Innopsys). Her research involves the development of automatized methods for the manipulation of single biomolecules and for application in large-scale and high-resolution epigenetic mapping. Her research activities also include the development of new microdevices for the detection of rare circulating biomarkers in vivo.