HANANE CHAMMA

Passionate researcher with expertise in immunology, virology, and cellular biology. Committed to integrating teaching with active research to advance understanding of immune mechanisms and cellular processes underlying inflammatory diseases. Driven to contribute to research projects that have a meaningful impact on public health and scientific innovation

• AGM Internal Seminar
  Presented the latest updates of my CCR5 and HIV postdoctoral project | Nov 5, 2025
• Poster presenter: Presented my doctoral research project, “Regulation of cGAS-Dependent Inflammation by Mecp2”, at the ARC Meeting, Paris, France | Oct 10, 2023
• Speaker – Innasco-Frontinov Symposium II
  ISARA Agrapole, Lyon, France | Sept 5–7, 2023
  Presented results from my doctoral research project titled “Regulation of cGAS-Dependent Inflammation by Mecp2”.
• Speaker – Mini-Symposium ‘Viruses and Immunity’
  Faculty of Medicine, Montpellier, France | June 2022
  Presented the paper “Regulation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids by STING: Role in Type I Interferonopathies” as the second author.
• Internal Seminar
  Institute of Human Genetics (IGH), Montpellier, France | May 2021
  Presented the research project topic and results of my doctoral thesis.

• ANRS Postdoctoral Fellowship – French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS)
  France | Jun 2024 – May 2026
• Cancer Research Scholarship – ARC NGO
  Montpellier, France | Dec 2022 – Present
• Certificate for Mentoring High School Student with the ‘Arbre des Connaissances’ NGO, Montpellier, France | Dec 2022 – May 2023
  Mentored high school students in scientific research projects.
• Cancer Research Scholarship – La Ligue contre le Cancer NGO
  Montpellier, France | Dec 2019 – Dec 2022
• United States Embassy / USAID Scholarship
  Beirut, Lebanon | Sep 2013 – Jun 2017

• How to Write a Good Literature Review
  March 25–27, 2020 | Montpellier, France
• Scientific Literature Management
  March 20–24, 2020 | Montpellier, France
• Research Integrity
  Feb–Mar 2020 | Montpellier, France
• Training for Teaching in Higher Education
  Nov 2019 – Feb 2020 | Montpellier, France

• 1- Chamma H, Guha S, Eloiflin RJ, Augereau A, Le Hars P, et al (2025). The methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 inhibits cGAS-associated signaling. Nature Commun. Nov 7;16(1):9827. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-65713-z. PMID: 41203665; PMCID: PMC12595089.
• 2- Taffoni C, Marines J, Chamma H et al. (2023)."DNA damage repair kinase DNA-PK and cGASsynergize to induce cancer-related inflammation in glioblastoma." EMBO J., 42(7):e111961.
• 3 -Vila IK, Chamma H , et al. (2022). "STINGorchestrates the crosstalk between polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism and inflammatory responses." Cell Metabolism, 34(1): 125–139.e8.
• 4- Chamma H , Guha S, Laguette N, Vila IK. (2022). "Protocol to induce and assesscGAS-STING pathway activation in vitro." STAR Protoc., 2022 May 14; 3(2):101384.
• 5- Chamma H , Vila IK, Taffoni C, Turtoï A, Laguette N (2022). "Activation of STING in the pancreatictumormicroenvironment: A noveltherapeuticopportunity." Cancer Lett., 538:215694. (Revue)
• 6- Taffoni C, Steer A, Marines J, Chamma H et al.(2021). "NucleicAcidImmunity and DNA Damage Response: New Friends and OldFoes." Front. Immunol., 12:660560. (Revue)
• 7- Masoud AT et al. (2021). "KAP-COVID GLOBAL: Amultinationalsurvey of the levels and determinants of public knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19." BMJ Open, 11:e043971. (Collaboration)
• 8- **Submitted manuscript**: Guha, S., Re, J., Chemarin, M., Grégoire, S., Messaoud-Nacer, Y., Chamma, H., Augereau, A., Barrat, J., Acar, N., Vila, I., Boudinot, P., & Laguette, N. (2025). Regulation of lipid metabolism is a primordial function of STING. Manuscript submitted currently to Nature com

• Dr. Jihane Basbous: Research director, CNRS Email: jihane.basbous@igh.cnrs.fr
• Dr. Nadine Laguette : Research director ,CNRS Email : nadine.laguette@igmm.cnrs.fr