Catherine Le Visage is a Research Scientist at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, located in Paris, and is working in a group focusing on Cardiovascular Bio-Engineering.

She was trained as a Pharmacist. In 1999, she received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Technologies from the University of Paris 11 (France) on nano-and microparticles. She performed a post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (USA) in the Biomedical Engineering Department, where she was appointed as a Research Associate in 2003. Her research focused on tissue engineering projects, such as intervertebral disc regeneration and tracheal replacement. She joined Inserm as a tenured Research Scientist in 2007 and she is now conducting research on 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering.