This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests.
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.
