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Study Director EPHE Contact: nfrances(at)univ-montp2.fr Phone: 04 67 14 42 52 Group 1: Metabolic impacts in tauopathies |
PRESENTATION
Nadine Mestre-Frances is an assistant professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. She teachs neuroscience and animal experimentation. She is co-responsible for the team “Cerebral aging and neurodegenerative diseases” in the unit INSERM U1198-EPHE-UM. She studies the Cerebral aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as prion, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease in a non human primate, the gray mouse lemur. The development of this model was supported by various fundings: US Alzheimer organization, France Alzheimer, National Institutes of Health, European Program FP7, GIS Prion, ANR e-rare. Head director of the platform animals models at the Montpellier University (CECEMA, www.cecemaa3l3.univ-montp2.fr)