Dr Elise Marsan

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Dr Elise Marsan

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  • Dr Elise Marsan
  • Position: Assistant Professor/Tenure-track Investigator
  • NIH/NIA/CARD
  • AD, FTD, LATE, TDP43, neurodegeneration, glia, omics, organoids

What is your area of research as it relates to FTD?

Cellular and momecular neuroscience


What inspired you to do FTD research?

FTD is a severe exemple of neurodegeneration that involves both neuronal and non neuronal intricate pathology. Therefore it is a fascinating and necessary area of research.


What challenges have you faced in FTD research?

What is both fascinating and difficult when studying FTD is to uncover the dynamic of the different cell types pathology during the disease progression as well as in different brain areas.


What hopes do you have for FTD research?

To identify and model new early onset disease mechanisms that could be drug targetable.