Prof Sandrine Lecour

Deputy Director of Cape Heart Institute

PharmD, (Dijon, France), PhD

CHI research group: Cardioprotection (Lead)
CHI membership: Full member

Sandrine Lecour is Professor in physiology in the Department of Medicine, Deputy Director of the CHI and Head of the Cardioprotection group at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include the delineation of intrinsic prosurvival signalling pathways activated in different pathophysiological conditions, including ischemic heart disease (she discovered the SAFE pathway in 2009). Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, she is the founder of the South African Heart Society for Cardiovascular Research (SASCAR) and currently the treasurer of the International Society for Heart Research. As a B-rated NRF researcher, she is on the Editorial Boards of numerous scientific journals with high-impact factor.

Research engagements:

Delineation of the SAFE pathway for cardioprotection
Lipoprotein metabolism and cardiovascular risk factors
Dietary melatonin/natural products for cardioprotection
Signalling mechanisms in cancer drugs-induced cardiac toxicity