Dr. Laurent Fattet was born and raised in the eastern part of France. He moved to Lyon to pursue his undergraduate studies at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 2007 and his Master’s degree in 2009. He then joined the laboratory of Dr. Ruth Rimokh at the Cancer Research Center of Lyon as a part of the Genetics and Cell Biology graduate program. During his PhD, Dr. Fattet studied the involvement of the recently identified protein TIF1 in the regulation of TGF signaling and its contribution to the induction of a cellular program leading to the promotion of breast tumor cell invasion. In March 2013, Dr. Fattet obtained his PhD from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and joined the laboratory of Dr. Jing Yang at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in July 2013 as a postdoctoral researcher working on the mechanoregulation of breast cancer metastasis.

Breast tumors, Metastasis, Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, Mechanotransduction, Cell migration, Cell invasion, Microenvironment, and Extracellular matrix.