Julia Fuchs leads the emerging team "Pathophysiology of transposable elements in the brain" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB) at the Collège de France in Paris. After obtaining her M.D. at the University of Göttingen (Germany), she obtained a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) where she worked on the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington's disease. She then pursued an internship in Neurology and research in neurogenetics of Parkinson's disease at the University of Tübingen (Germany) where she obtained her PhD in neuroscience. Motivated by her deep interest in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, she joined the laboratory of Pr Alain Prochiantz at the ENS and then at the Collège de France in Paris. There she worked on fundamental approaches to identify new treatments for Parkinson's disease, which are currently in preclinical phase. Her more recent work focuses on transposable elements and their physiological and pathophysiological roles in neurodegenerative diseases.
She is co-author of three patents and obtained the NRJ Foundation -Institute de France Research Award 2022 for her work on the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease.
