 Dr Hilal A. Lashuel is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr Lashuel received his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the City University of New York in 1994 and completed his doctoral studies at Texas A&M University and the Scripps Research Institute in 1999. After spending a year as a research fellow at the Picower Institute for Medical Research, Dr Lashuel moved to Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital as a research fellow in the Center for Neurologic Diseases. In 2001 he received a sabbatical fellowship from Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair and was promoted to an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School. During his tenure (2001-2004) at Harvard Medical School his work focused on understanding the mechanisms of protein misfolding and fibrillogenesis and the role of these processes in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. In 2005 Dr Lashuel moved to Switzerland to join the Brain Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Laussane as a tenure-track asssistant professor in neuroscieces. Currenlty, Dr Lashuel is the director of the laboratory of molecular neurobiology and Neuroproteomics (http://nmnf.epfl.ch) and academic director of the EPFL proteomic platform (http://pcf.epfl.ch) .
Dr Lashuel scientific contribution includes i) 50 publications in major peer reviewed journals including Nature, Cell, Genes & Development, PNAS, JBC, Biochemistry; ii) three patents on novel strategies for preventing protein aggregation; iii) more than 65 invited lectures since 2002. In addition, Dr Lashuel has chaired and co-organized several international conferences and serves as an academic editor for PLoS ONE, an associate editor for frontiers of molecular neuroscience and ad hoc reviewer for more than fifteen international journals and several international funding agencies. |
