Franck Touret
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Franck Touret
@franckdrtourte.bsky.social
PhD in virology
Associate professeur in @UVE lab (Marseille, France). Holder of the new chair: Antiviral strategies for emergence in the south @IRD
Head of the PCVMT platform ( sub-entity of MaSC) dedicated to antiviral screening with replicating viruses.
Just published in Antiviral research!
3D Liver Spheroids in the Fight Against Haemorrhagic Fever Viruses
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@ird-fr.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @insermpacacorse.bsky.social
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2025.106188
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May 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🔬 New Research Breakthrough: Broad-Spectrum Inhibitors for Enteroviruses🦠Enteroviruses (EV) are a diverse group of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses, from mild fever to severe neurological complications.
February 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🚨 New Insights on Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses & 3D Cell Culture Models 🦠
In the ongoing battle against hemorrhagic fever viruses (HFVs), the development of effective antiviral strategies remains a critical challenge.
January 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Franck Touret
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The main paper of my PhD thesis

Due to the words limitation i will make it short but thanks to @franckdrtourte.bsky.social , Dr. Suzanne Kaptein, @neytsjohan.bsky.social, Christian Alfano, Carla Gomes da Silva, Ivan Gladwyn-ng, Emily Slowikowski and Prof Marques
Epidemic Zika virus strains from the Asian lineage induce an attenuated fetal brain pathogenicity - Nature Communications
During the 2015–2016 outbreak, Zika virus infection was linked to birth defects. Here, the authors show that epidemic strains cause less severe disease in mouse embryos than pre-epidemic strains and c...
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December 30, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Very happy to share about our paper on the sensitivity to mosnodenvir of the epidemic DENV2 lineage from the French Caribbean Islands in Nature communications
doi.org/10.1038/s414... a thread 👇
Genomic surveillance reveals a dengue 2 virus epidemic lineage with a marked decrease in sensitivity to Mosnodenvir - Nature Communications
Dengue is a major public health threat in the Americas including the French Caribbean Islands, in which an epidemic has been ongoing since August 2023. Here, the authors investigate the genetic compos...
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October 10, 2024 at 1:40 PM
I'm really pleased and proud to share the peer-reviewed version of my first article as a p.i, and for a study we launched two years ago (a lifetime in SARS-CoV-2 timeline).
Generation and evaluation of protease inhibitor-resistant SARS-CoV-2 strains
Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the search for antiviral therapies has been at the forefront of medical research. To date, the 3CLpro inhi…
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January 25, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Fresh from the oven our study on the functional diversity of cross-reacting antibodies generated during SARS-CoV-2 infection and illustrate how the balance between neutralizing and enhancing Abs facilitate variant emergence.

doi.org/10.1080/2222...
January 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
New laboratory preprint Translational study in which we investigated the resistance barrier of two protease inhibitors (nirmatrelvir and ensitrelvir).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 28, 2023 at 8:32 AM