Debette Stephanie

Biography

Stéphanie Debette is Professor of epidemiology at Bordeaux University and INSERM Center U1219, where she directs the VINTAGE team. She is also practicing neurologist at Bordeaux University Hospital and adjunct associate professor in the department of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, USA. S Debette holds a master degree in statistical genetics and a PhD in Epidemiology (2008). She co-authored 100+ papers (including first or last author papers in Nat Genet, Lancet Neurol, BMJ, Ann Neurol, Circulation, Neurology). She obtained a Fulbright fellowship, a Chair of Excellence from the French National Research Agency (ANR), a Chair of Excellence from Bordeaux University, and is member of a Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence on cerebral small vessel disease. Recently she obtained and ERC starting grant to study genetic determinants of early structural brain alterations in young students, and she coordinates a European JPND grant on “next generation” genomic approaches to detect risk and protective factors for brain imaging markers of cognitive decline and dementia.

Research Interest

Neurology