{"id":48863,"date":"2024-10-08T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=43443"},"modified":"2025-02-28T22:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:36:43","slug":"dr-francesca-cicchetti","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/profile\/dr-francesca-cicchetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Francesca Cicchetti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Cicchetti obtained her PhD in neurobiology at Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec (Canada) in 1998. In 2002, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the field of cell replacement therapy for neurodegenerative disorders. She is now professor at the department of Psychiatry &amp; Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine of Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec and her laboratory is most recognized for its contribution to: (1) the development of animal models of Parkinson\u2019s disease, (2) the identification of new pharmacological approaches to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease and (3) for shedding light on the role of various proteins in the dissemination of pathology in Huntington\u2019s and Parkinson&rsquo;s diseases. As of now, she has published over 120 manuscripts in various high impact journals translating into an h-index of 52 and a total of 8186 citations. She has received numerous awards and distinctions including the Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator Award (2007-2012), the Fonds de Recherche en Sant\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (FRSQ) Junior Research Award (2003-2006 and 2006-2007), the Young Investigator Award from NARSAD (2006) and Parkinson Society Canada (2002), the prestigious National Researcher award (2014-2017) as well as a Research Chair from FRQS (2017-2021). She was recently appointed Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer is-style-responsive-xsmall\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer is-style-responsive-xsmall\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Cicchetti a obtenu son doctorat en neurobiologie \u00e0 l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 Laval \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec (Canada) en 1998. En 2002, elle a effectu\u00e9 un stage postdoctoral \u00e0 la Harvard Medical School dans le domaine de la th\u00e9rapie cellulaire de remplacement pour les troubles neurod\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9ratifs. Elle est maintenant professeure au d\u00e9partement de psychiatrie et de neurosciences de la Facult\u00e9 de m\u00e9decine de l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 Laval \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec et son laboratoire est surtout reconnu pour sa contribution \u00e0 : (1) au d\u00e9veloppement de mod\u00e8les animaux de la maladie de Parkinson, (2) \u00e0 l&rsquo;identification de nouvelles approches pharmacologiques pour traiter la maladie de Parkinson et (3) \u00e0 la mise en lumi\u00e8re du r\u00f4le de diverses prot\u00e9ines dans la diss\u00e9mination de la pathologie dans les maladies de Huntington et de Parkinson. \u00c0 ce jour, elle a publi\u00e9 plus de 120 manuscrits dans diverses revues \u00e0 fort impact, ce qui se traduit par un h-index de 52 et un total de 8186 citations. Elle a re\u00e7u de nombreux prix et distinctions, dont le Prix du nouveau chercheur des Instituts de recherche en sant\u00e9 du Canada (2007-2012), le Prix de la recherche junior du Fonds de recherche en sant\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (FRSQ) (2003-2006 et 2006-2007), le Prix du jeune chercheur de NARSAD (2006) et de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Parkinson Canada (2002), le prestigieux Prix national du chercheur (2014-2017) ainsi qu&rsquo;une Chaire de recherche du FRQS (2017-2021). Elle a r\u00e9cemment \u00e9t\u00e9 nomm\u00e9e membre de l&rsquo;Acad\u00e9mie canadienne des sciences de la sant\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"template":"","class_list":["post-48863","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49777,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48863\/revisions\/49777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinson.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}