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PH CHU Contact: c-marelli(at)chu-montpellier.fr Phone: 33 (0)4 67 14 42 70 (Florence Maschat' Units, U1198) / 33(0)4 67 33 60 29 (secretariat CHU, Département de neurologie) Group 2: Cellular determinants of neuroprotection |
Presentation
Cecilia Marelli has been working as Neurologist in the Neurology Department at the Gui de Chauliac University Hospital of Montpellier since October 2010. She is actually completing a PhD degree on P42, a peptide active against Huntington’s disease, under the direction of Florence Maschat (U1198- MMDN)
She completed her residency in neurology at the Istituto Neurologico Besta in Milan (Italy) (in the team "Movement Disorders", directed by the Professor A. Albanese), followed by a one-year fellowship in the same Institute (in the team directed by the Dr D. Pareyson) and by a two –year fellowship in the Genetic Department of the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris (in the team Directed by the Professor A. Durr and the Professor A. Brice).
She is mainly interested in the genetic and metabolic aspects of neurodegenerative diseases, notably Huntington’s disease, cerebellar ataxias, spastic paraplegias, and dementias.