Marie-Germaine Bousser
Born11 August 1943
NationalityFrench
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University
Occupationneuroscientist
Known forDiscovery of CADASIL

Marie-Germaine Bousser (born 11 August 1943) is a French neuroscientist. She won the Brain Prize in 2019 for her work on CADASIL.[1]

Biography

Bousser graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University in neuro-psychiatry in 1972 with her thesis devoted to the prevention of cortical artery thrombosis in rabbits by aspirin and PGE1.[1]

She trained at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.[1][2] Subsequently, she worked at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, before returning to Paris.[1] She became a Professor of Neurology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1981.[1] She became head of neurology at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris in 1989, where she stayed until 1997.[1][2] She returned to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1997, becoming the head of neurology there. She later became Emeritus Professor at the Paris-Diderot University.[1]

Research

Bousser is most well known for her role in the discovery of CADASIL, a hereditary form of stroke.[3] She researched the, then unnamed, condition for the first time in 1976, when a patient entered her clinic with signs of Binswanger's disease after suffering a stroke.[4] She found that the condition was hereditary after children of the initial patient presented similar symptoms. In 1993 she showed, together with Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, that the condition was caused by a mutation on chromosome 19.[4] They subsequently named the condition CADASIL.[4][1]

Awards

Bousser is Commander of the Legion of Honor (2013) and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (2018)[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Marie-Germaine Bousser | The Lundbeck Foundation". lundbeckfonden.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  2. 1 2 Working group on the signs of death : 11-12 September 2006.
  3. 1 2 "Biographie et actualités de Marie-Germaine Bousser France Inter". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Qiu, Jane (2008-10-01). "Marie-Germaine Bousser: going against the grain". The Lancet Neurology. 7 (10): 870. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70208-4. ISSN 1474-4422. PMID 18848308. S2CID 6291792.
  5. ↑ World Stroke Organization (1 March 2019). "Marie-Germaine Bousser receives the 2019 Brain Prize". Retrieved 8 March 2021.
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