Rethinking the role of alpha-synuclein aggregation in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease and synucleinopathies
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Hilal Lashuel is the director of the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Research in the Lashuel laboratory focuses on applying chemical biology approaches to elucidate the mechanisms of protein misfolding and aggregation and their contribution to neurodegenerative diseases with ultimate goal of developing novel therapies and diagnostics for early intervention, and monitoring disease progression.
Dr. Lashuel received his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College (1994) and completed his doctoral studies at Texas A&M University and the Scripps Research Institute (2000). He joined Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2001) as a research fellow and was later promoted to an instructor in neurology before joining the EPFL in 2005. In addition to his appointment at the EPFL, Dr. Lashuel served as the Executive Director of Qatar Biomedical Research, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Qatar Biobank and Qatar Genome Project from 2014-2016, and currently serves as the research, development and innovation advisor to the chairperson of Qatar Foundation. He is also founder and CSO of ND BioSciences SA a biotech company focusing on developing novel diagnostics and therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Date: 9 February 2024, 13:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Speaker: Hilal Lashuel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Organising department: Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Part of: DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Hannah Simm