Dr. Véronique Delmas, PhD, is a Research Director at the Institute Curie, France. Dr. Delmas completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the lab of Professor R. Perry at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Dr. Delmas then joined the IGBMC in the laboratory of Professor P. Sassone-Corsi, in Illkirch, France. She then moved to Germany, to the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg, where she started working on the importance of cell-cell adhesion molecules during embryonic development and in cancer processes. She then joined Institut Curie where she developed integrative approaches (molecular, cellular and physiological) to decipher the mechanisms regulating the establishment of melanocytes during embryonic development, their homeostasis and their transformation into melanoma.

Dr. Delmas has shown the importance of cell adhesion in melanocyte homeostasis and, combined with mechanical and oxidative stress, its impact on the etiology vitiligo. She is currently investigating the role of cell adhesion in melanocyte transformation using original mouse models. She is involved in teaching and she is a member of ESPCR and ESDR societies and acts as a reviewer to several funding agencies and journals.