Séverine Sabia, awarded by the Vaincre Alzheimer 2024 Foundation
Séverine Sabia from the EpiAgeing team has obtained the Vaincre Alzheimer Foundation cross-border prize with Prof. Martijn Brouwers from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The funded project was initiated by Frank van der Heide, a post-doctoral fellow in the EpiAgeing team and a former doctoral student in Prof. Brouwers’ team, it aims to study a combination of measurements of nerves and small blood vessels in the retina and their associations with the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other related disorders. The eye is considered to be a window on the brain. Studies have shown that the degeneration of neurons and blood vessels in the retina is involved in the processes underlying cognitive disorders.
This project will be based on data from 1,100 patients from the cognitive neurology centre at the Lariboisière-Fernand Widal hospital and 3,000 cognitively healthy participants from a Dutch general population cohort.
Ultimately, retinal measurements could be an essential tool for improving the early diagnosis of neurocognitive diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-VGEZ1uEM (Durée de l’intervention 1:26:22 to 1:36:50)
