Pr. Sophie Bernard

Actual position / professional status
Full Professor of Biomedical Physics,
Vice-Dean of Education at the Faculty of Sciences,
Chair of the Master Program in BioMedical Engineering – Paris (BME-Paris),
Chair of the M2 track “Innovation in Digital Health”,
Co-Director of the Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering,

Short biography

Sophie Bernard is full Professor of Biomedical Physics at the School of Fundamental and Biomedical Sciences at Université Paris Cité, and conducts her research at the HealthFex INSERM UMR-S 1124 laboratory.

Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the development of microfluidic compartmentalized chips to recapitulate in vitrophysiological relevant models of myelination, demyelination and remyelination. From DRG explants or dissociated neuron cultures growing in the controlled microenvironment of a tailor-designed chip, her team aims to model neurodegenerative diseases, screen drugs and evaluate the therapeutical potency of extracellular vesicles secreted by Schwann cells to induce remyelination and to prevent demyelination.

She obtained a PhD in biophysics in 1996 from Paris 7 University, where her research focused on the development of surface-enhanced Raman scattering to track the fate of antitumour drugs in cancer cells. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Pasteur Institute (Paris) in partnership with Pfizer Research (Connecticut, USA) prior to joining Paris Descartes University in 1999, where she obtained her habilitation to in 2006.

Recent Publications

ORCIID: 0000-0001-8039-130

2026

Uhl JF, Rodriguez Moroyoqui S, Pesqueira Elias R, Nataf P, Jorge J, Bernard S, Mogorron Huerta JR, Reyes Gonzalez JP, Rodriguez Herrera CA, Quihuis CH, Lugo Quiroga LF. IRIS™: a new Oculus immersive device for remote interactive collaboration of surgical experts. JTAVR 2026;11(1):255 https://doi.org/10.24019/jtavr.255

Léa Ponchel-Bourgain, Anthony Raffoul Rahme, Sophie Bernard, Marcela Szopos, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, et al.. Challenges and Opportunities in Postgraduate Digital Health Education. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2026, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, ⟨10.3233/SHTI260669⟩. ⟨hal-05703989⟩

2025

Solène Moreau, Raul Flores-Berdines, Anne Simon, Tatiana El Jalkh, Guillaume Taret, Anna Fomina, Céline Dargenet-Becker, André Estevez-Torres, Sophie Bernard°, Hugo Salmon°; Reversible and reusable compartmentalized thermoplastic chip for coculture of dorsal root ganglion neurons. Lab Chip 2025; 25 (24): 6741–6755. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5lc00666j ⟨hal-05360835⟩