Marie-Germaine Bousser
Marie-Germaine Bousser | |
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| File:Marie-Germaine Bousser.jpg Marie-Germaine Bousser in 2024. | |
| Born | 11 August 1943 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation | neuroscientist |
| Known for | Discovery of CADASIL |
Marie-Germaine Bousser (born 11 August 1943) is a French neuroscientist. She won the Brain Prize in 2019 for her work on CADASIL.[1]
Biography
Bousser graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University in neuro-psychiatry in 1972 with her thesis devoted to the prevention of cortical artery thrombosis in rabbits by aspirin and PGE1.[1] She trained at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.[1][2] Subsequently, she worked at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, before returning to Paris.[1] She became a Professor of Neurology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1981.[1] She became head of neurology at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris in 1989, where she stayed until 1997.[1][2] She returned to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1997, becoming the head of neurology there. She later became Emeritus Professor at the Paris-Diderot University.[1]
Research
Bousser is most well known for her role in the discovery of CADASIL, a hereditary form of stroke.[3] She researched the, then unnamed, condition for the first time in 1976, when a patient entered her clinic with signs of Binswanger's disease after suffering a stroke.[4] She found that the condition was hereditary after children of the initial patient presented similar symptoms. In 1993 she showed, together with Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, that the condition was caused by a mutation on chromosome 19.[4] They subsequently named the condition CADASIL.[4][1]
Awards
Bousser is Commander of the Legion of Honor (2013) and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (2018)[1]
- 2008 Johann Jakob Wepfer Prize[4][3]
- 2012 World Stroke Organisation President's Award[5]
- 2019 Brain Prize[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Marie-Germaine Bousser | The Lundbeck Foundation". lundbeckfonden.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Working group on the signs of death : 11-12 September 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Biographie et actualités de Marie-Germaine Bousser France Inter". www.franceinter.fr (in français). Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Qiu, Jane (2008-10-01). "Marie-Germaine Bousser: going against the grain". The Lancet Neurology. 7 (10): 870. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70208-4. ISSN 1474-4422. PMID 18848308. S2CID 6291792.
- ↑ World Stroke Organization (1 March 2019). "Marie-Germaine Bousser receives the 2019 Brain Prize". Retrieved 8 March 2021.