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Etienne Hirsch, PhD - Scientific Advisory Board
Director
Experimental Neurology & Therapeutics
INSERM & Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 University
Paris , France

Etienne Hirsch is a neurobiologist involved in research on Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. He obtained his PhD in 1988 from the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) and is currently the chairman of the INSERM Unit 679 « Experimental neurology and therapeutics » at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. His work is aimed at understanding the cause of neuronal degeneration in Parkinson’s disease and is focused on the role of the glial cells, the inflammatory cytokines and apoptosis but also on the consequences of neuronal degeneration in the circuitries downstream to the lesions. He is member of several advisory boards including Fédération pour la recherché sur le cerveau (Chairman), French Society for Neuroscience (President elect), Neuroscience review panel at INSERM (President). He obtained several prizes including Tourette Syndrome Association Award in1986, Young researcher Award, European Society for Neurochemistry in 1990, Grand Prix de l’Académie de Sciences, Prix de la Fondation pour la recherche biomédicale « Prix François Lhermitte » in 1999. He is author of more than 200 peer reviewed articles.