Jacques Hugon

After studying Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, he completed an internship in neurology at the University of Limoges. He worked as a French doctor at Taez Hospital in Yemen and was Research Associate for two years at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York from 1984 to 1986. During this period, he obtained a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Paris on Guam’s disease, associating Parkinson’s disease, dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. After having been a Hospital Practitioner of Neurology for two years, he was appointed University Professor  with the Faculty of Medicine of Limoges in 1989 and consultant neurologist. In the late 90s, he obtained a chair in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong / Queen Mary Hospital/ Neurology and became Head of Department. Upon his return in 2003, he was appointed Professor at the Poitiers University Hospital and worked in the department of neurology of this hospital. Since 2006, he has been full professor at the Faculty of Medicine University of Paris City and at Lariboisière hospital and head of the department of the Center for Cognitive Neurology in this hospital for 12 years. He is an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong and emeritus professor with the University of Paris City? His current research interests include biomarkers and changes in the molecular signaling of neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, as well as long COVID. He has authored around  400 publications.