Morwena LATOUCHE

Morwena Latouche is a lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) since 2014, a member of the EPHE Neurogenetics laboratory included in Institut du Cerveau team “Molecular bases, pathophysiology and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases”. She holds a PhD in Human Genetics (2007) from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and was awarded the Prix Perrissin-Pirasset in 2008 by the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University College of London (UCL) before joining the Brain Institute in 2011.

Morwena Latouche studies complex forms of motor neuron disease, specifically hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and mixed forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and fronto-temporal lobar degeneration (DLFT-SLA), which share many clinical and pathophysiological similarities. Through the development and study of animal and cellular models, she is interested in neuron-glia interactions and pathophysiological processes underlying the complex phenotypes, particularly cognitive ones, that characterize these diseases.