Degenerative and Inflammatory Diseases of the Nervous System

This theme includes the following:

  1. Neuroinflammatory diseases: explore disease mechanisms to accelerate innovation in diagnostics and therapeutics to improve patient outcomes: focusing on MS, NeuroAIDS and myasthenia gravis
  2. Parkinson's disease: expand knowledge on links between gait, balance, behaviour, and cognition in this disease, and explore structural and functional brain changes related to clinical disability.
  3. Neurogenetics program: characterize the phenotype-genotype relationships of common and rare neurodegenerative disorders afflicting both the old and young.
  4. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Develop advanced MR imaging biomarkers to study cerebral degeneration in ALS.