Penn Medicine Provider
Veronique Marie Agnes Lefebvre, PhD
About me
- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
My Locations
Qualifications and experience
- Ad-hoc reviewer: NIH MOSS V(02) Special Emphasis Panel Study Sections on "Skeletal biology and disease", National
- Ad-hoc reviewer: NIH NICHD-CHHD-C Study Section, National
- Member of the External Advisory Board (EAB) of the COBRE Center for Skeletal Health and Repair at Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI, National
- Membership: Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), International
- Membership: Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), International
- Membership: The American College of Rheumatology/American Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ACR/ARHP), National
- Membership: The American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB), National
- Membership: The Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), International
- NIH, National
- Participating Faculty in the Biomedical Science Training Program in Cell Biology, CWRU, National
- Participating Faculty in the Kent State University/Cleveland Clinic Collaborative Doctoral Program, National
- Referee for Faculty promotion at The University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Duke University, Harvard Medical School, Washington University, and more, National
- Reviewer: Het Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, International
- Reviewer: Le Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique, International
- Reviewer: Le Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, International
- Reviewer: NIH R15 grants, National
- Reviewer: Ortho and Clinical study sections for the Shriners Hospitals for Children, National
- Reviewer: Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, International
- Reviewer: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, International
- Reviewer: The Concerted Actions of the Ministry of Education of Flanders, International
- Reviewer: The Dutch Cancer Society, International
- Reviewer: The Israel Science Foundation, International
- Reviewer: The Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, Local
- Reviewer: The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, National
- Reviewer: The Medical Research Council, International
- Reviewer: The National Institutes of Health (USA; multiple participations in special emphasis panels), National
- Reviewer: The National Science Foundation, National
- Reviewer: The Wellcome Trust, International
My research
Angelozzi M, Karvande A, Lefebvre V SOXC are critical regulators of adult bone mass , Nat Commun, 15(1): 2024,2956
Molin AN, Contentin R, Angelozzi M, Karvande A, Kc R, Haseeb A, Voskamp C, de Charleroy C, and Lefebvre V Skeletal growth is enhanced by a shared role for SOX8 and SOX9 in promoting reserve chondrocyte commitment to columnar proliferation , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA , 121(8): 2024,e2316969121
Angelozzi M, Pellegrino da Silva R, Gonzalez MV, Lefebvre V. Single-cell atlas of craniogenesis uncovers SOXC-dependent, highly proliferative, and myofibroblast-like osteodermal progenitors , Cell Rep, 40: 2022,111045
Angelozzi M, Karvande A, Molin AN, Ritter AL, Leonard JMM, Savatt JM, Douglass K, Myers SM, Grippa M, Tolchin D, Zackai E, Donoghue S, Hurst ACE, Descartes M, Smith K, Velasco D, Schmanski A, Crunk A, Tokita MJ, de Lange IM, van Gassen K, Robinson H, Guegan K, Suri M, Patel C, Bournez M, Faivre L, Tran-Mau-Them F, Baker J, Fabie N, Weaver K, Shillington A, Hopkin RJ, Barge-Schaapveld DQCM, Ruivenkamp CA, Bökenkamp R, Vergano S, Seco Moro MN, Díaz de Bustamante A, Misra VK, Kennelly K, Rogers C, Friedman J, Wigby KM, Lenberg J, Graziano C, Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Lefebvre V. Consolidation of the clinical and genetic definition of a SOX4-related neurodevelopmental syndrome , J Med Genet: 2022
Haseeb A, Kc R, Angelozzi M, de Charleroy C, Rux D, Tower RJ, Yao L, Pellegrino da Silva R, Pacifici M, Qin L, Lefebvre V. SOX9 keeps growth plates and articular cartilage healthy by inhibiting chondrocyte dedifferentiation/osteoblastic redifferentiation , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118: 2021,e2019152118
Zawerton A, Mignot C, Sigafoos A, Blackburn PR, Haseeb A, McWalter K, Ichikawa S, Nava C, Keren B, Charles P, Marey I, Tabet AC, Levy J, Perrin L, Hartmann A, Lesca G, Schluth-Bolard C, Monin P, Dupuis-Girod S, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Schnur RE, Zhu Z, Poisson A, El Chehadeh S, Alembik Y, Bruel AL, Lehalle D, Nambot S, Moutton S, Odent S, Jaillard S, Dubourg C, Hilhorst-Hofstee Y, Barbaro-Dieber T, Ortega L, Bhoj EJ, Masser-Frye D, Bird LM, Lindstrom K, Ramsey KM, Narayanan V, Fassi E, Willing M, Cole T, Salter CG, Akilapa R, Vandersteen A, Canham N, Rump P, Gerkes EH, Klein Wassink-Ruiter JS, Bijlsma E, Hoffer MJV, Vargas M, Wojcik A, Cherik F, Francannet C, Rosenfeld JA, Machol K, Scott DA, Bacino CA, Wang X, Clark GD, Bertoli M, Zwolinski S, Thomas RH, Akay E, Chang RC, Bressi R, Sanchez Russo R, Srour M, Russell L, Goyette AE, Dupuis L, Mendoza-Londono R, Karimov C, Joseph M, Nizon M, Cogné B, Kuechler A, Piton A; Deciphering Developmental Disorder Study; Klee EW, Lefebvre V, Clark KJ, Depienne C. Widening of the genetic and clinical spectrum of Lamb-Shaffer syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder due to SOX5 haploinsufficiency , Genet Med: 2020
Tolchin D, Yeager JP, Prasad P, Dorrani N, Russi AS, Martinez-Agosto JA, Haseeb A, Angelozzi M, Santen GWE, Ruivenkamp C, Mercimek-Andrews S, Depienne C, Kuechler A, Mikat B, Ludecke HJ, Bilan F, Le Guyader G, Gilbert-Dussardier B, Keren B, Heide S, Haye D, Van Esch H, Keldermans L, Ortiz D, Lancaster E, Krantz ID, Krock BL, Pechter KB, Arkader A, Medne L, DeChene ET, Calpena E, Melistaccio G, Wilkie AOM, Suri M, Foulds N; Genomics England Research Consortium; Begtrup A, Henderson LB, Forster C, Reed P, McDonald MT, McConkie-Rosell A, Thevenon J, Le Tanno P, Coutton C, Tsai ACH, Stewart S, Maver A, Gorazd R, Pichon O, Nizon M, Cogné B, Isidor B, Martin-Coignard D, Stoeva R, Lefebvre V, Le Caignec C. De Novo SOX6 Variants Cause a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Associated with ADHD, Craniosynostosis, and Osteochondromas , Am J Hum Genet, 106: 2020,830-845
Haseeb Abdul, Lefebvre Véronique The SOXE transcription factors-SOX8, SOX9 and SOX10-share a bi-partite transactivation mechanism. , Nucleic acids research, 47(13): 2019,6917-6931
Angelozzi Marco, Lefebvre Véronique SOXopathies: Growing Family of Developmental Disorders Due to SOX Mutations. , Trends in genetics : TIG: 2019
Zawerton Ash, Yao Baojin, Yeager J Paige, Pippucci Tommaso, Haseeb Abdul, Smith Joshua D, Wischmann Lisa, Kühl Susanne J, Dean John C S, Pilz Daniela T, Holder Susan E, McNeill Alisdair, Graziano Claudio, Lefebvre Véronique De Novo SOX4 Variants Cause a Neurodevelopmental Disease Associated with Mild Dysmorphism. , American journal of human genetics, 104(4): 2019,777