Benoit Arsenault speaks to Francesca Lake (Managing Editor, Future Science Open Access). Dr Benoit Arsenault obtained his doctoral degree in physiology-endocrinology from Université Laval in Québec City, Canada in 2009. After two postdoctoral fellowships performed at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and at the Montreal Heart Institute (Canada), he became Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine at Université Laval in 2013. Dr. Arsenault is also a research scientist in the cardiology axis at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute in Canada.