Scientist Profiles - Corinne Lasmezas

Corinne Lasmezas, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Infectology

Dr. Corinne Lasmezas obtained her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine and Master’s of Aeronautic and Space Medicine at the University of Toulouse, and her PhD in Neurosciences at the University of Paris, France. She started studying the neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions at the French Atomic Energy Commission in the early 1990s, when mad cow disease had just appeared in the United Kingdom. In 1996, her research provided the first experimental proof that mad cow disease had been transmitted to humans. She established the experimental models to study the pathogenesis of the disease caused by bovine prions.  She studied the role of the immune system, the propagation of the infectious agent in the organism, and the neurodegenerative process. At the peak of the mad cow disease crisis, she had become an advisor for several European governmental and public health committees and for the World Health Organization. Since her appointment at Scripps Florida in 2005, her research team has focused on how prions replicate and lead to neuronal dysfunction and loss, and on the search for drugs to halt the neurodegenerative process in prion and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

2011 Front Lines of Hope Hero
Tuesday, April 12, 2011; “Lessons from Mad Cow Disease: Unlocking the Mysteries of Age-Related Disorders”

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