Born on May 24 1977 in Troisdorf, Germany.
Julia Fuchs heads the emerging team " Pathophysiology of transposable elements in the brain " at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie (CIRB) at the Collège de France in Paris. After obtaining her MD from the University of Göttingen (Germany), she was awarded 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 a neurology internship and research into the neurogenetics of Parkinson's disease at the University of Tübingen (Germany), where she obtained her doctorate in neuroscience. Motivated by her deep interest in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, she joined Pr Alain Prochiantz's laboratory at the ENS and then at the Collège de France in Paris. There, she worked on fundamental approaches to identifying new treatments for Parkinson's disease, which are currently in the pre-clinical 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 winner of the Fondation NRJ-Institut de France 2022 grand prize for her work on the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease.
