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Alexis Elbaz Epidemiological studies of neurological diseases and ageing

Course and current status

MD (Neurology)

PhD (Epidemiology)

Director of research (DR1), Inserm U1018

Deputy director of the "Exposome, heredity, cancer, and health" team at CESP

Scientific co-director of the E3N-Generations cohort study (https://www.e3n-generations.fr/)

Coordinateur du Club d’utilisateurs "Vieillissement et maladies neurodégénératives" de Constances

2024 : Prix de Médecine Aimée et Raymond Mande. Académie de médecine.

2023 : Prix Eliane et Gérard Pauthier, sous l’égide de la Fondation de France

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Scientific summary

Alexis Elbaz is a neurologist specialized in movement disorders and epidemiologist specialized in neuroepidemiology working as a research professor at Inserm.

He is the co-scientific director of the E3N-Generations cohort study, a transgenerational cohort of ˜100,000 women recruited in 1990 and followed since, ˜20,000 (target 50,000) of their children, and ˜20,000 fathers of their children (https://www.e3n-generations.fr/).

One major focus of his research is the epidemiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). He has coordinated several large population-based PD studies on environmental exposures and their interaction with genetic/epigenetic factors. He is member of the steering committee of the Geo-PD and Courage-PD consortia, and co-PI of the EPIC consortium. He has extensive experience with the management of large scale PD studies using novel methods such as Mendelian randomization and analyseis of gene-environment interactions.

He has experience in analyzing data from longitudinal studies, in particular aimed at examinging the risk factors and consequences of motor decline during ageing.