She received her doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Sherbrooke in 1997, followed by two post-doctoral fellowships at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (France) and at the University of Rochester (New York). In 2001, she was recruited by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), first as a Chargée de recherches, and more recently as Directeur de recherches. She established her laboratory studies on the molecular mechanisms associated with vascular mechanotransduction (the signal transduction cascades stimulated by changes in blood pressure or blood flow).