David Wallon, MD. PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

Neurology department; National Reference Center For Young Onset Alzheimer; Rouen University Hospital

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer's dementia diagnostics, Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, young onset dementia, Alzheimer's disease genetics, genetic algorithm, genotype-phenotype correlation

Biography & Research: 

Dr. David Wallon was trained as M.D. in Neurology (2011, Rouen University Hospital, School of Medicine, Fr) and as Ph.D. (in 2014, Neurosciences in the laboratory of Dr. Dominique Campion, INSERM U1245). He worked during his PhD on the genotype/phenotype correlations regarding clinical, biological and imaging data of early-onset AD patients. He was the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship for physician and spent 1 year in London, UCL University at the Dementia Research Center (in Prof. Nick Fox’s team). There he worked on biological and imaging modifications in brains of asymptomatically individuals harboring causative mutations for AD. In 2016, he obtained a position as an associate professor in the Neurology Department of Rouen University Hospital and he is now responsible for the local Memory Clinic. He is associated to the INSERM U1245 laboratory as physician researcher. His work is devoted to investigate genetics of early-onset AD patients in order to discover new causative mutations and rare genetic risk factors. From January 2018, he is responsible for the Rouen site of the National Reference Center for Young Onset AD patients (CNR-MAJ).