Françoise is the co-leader with Fabrice Pierre of the PPCF team .
She is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse. After practicing veterinary medicine for a number of years, she completed her thesis on the effect of growth hormone on hepatic detoxification activities at the Xenobiotics Laboratory. Recruited by INRA in 1997, she then turned her attention to lipid oxidation products, first as biomarkers of oxidative stress, then to their presence in the diet and their involvement in the development of various diseases, notably colorectal cancer. With the AXIOM platform, she is developing targeted metabolomics approaches for toxicologically relevant compounds.