Christophe Tzourio#
| Membership Number: | 6642 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://cvscience.aviesan.fr/cv/20/christophe-tzourio |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6517-2984 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Co-director, National Inserm School (Inserm = National Institute for Health and Medical Research) (Ecole Inserm-Liliane Bettencourt), Paris
- 2013 - 2021 Director, Inserm (Inserm = National Institute for Health and Medical Research) U1219 research centre “Bordeaux Population Health”, Bordeaux
- 2011 Professor of Epidemiology, University of Bordeaux; Hospital Practitioner, Methodological Research Counceling Unit, Bordeaux University Hospital
- 2018 Deputy Director, Graduate school “Digital Public Health”, Univ. Bordeaux
- 2014 Director, Students’ Health Department, Univ. Bordeaux
- 2005 - 2013 Director, Inserm (Inserm = National Institute for Health and Medical Research) Research Unit U708 “Neuroepidemiology”, Univ. Paris VI
- 2007 - 2008 Director, Department of Public Health Research, Inserm (Inserm = National Institute for Health and Medical Research) headquarter, Paris
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Institute for International Health, Univ. Sydney (Australia)
- 1998 Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Univ. Auckland (New Zealand)
- 1985 - 1993 Resident (Interne), then Senior Registrar (Chef de Clinique-Assistant) in Neurology Department, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris
Fields of Scholarship
- Consequences of hypertension on the brain
- Students’ mental health
- Randomized trials
- Dilated perivascular spaces in the brain
- Vascular brain lesions on MRI
- Neuroepidemiology
- Population-based cohort studies
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2024 Award for Scientific Excellency, French Ministry of Research
- 2016 - 2019 Doctoral and Research Supervisory Award, French Ministry of Research
- 2012 Prize of the Fondation Bettencourt 'Coup d'élan pour la recherche Française' (€250,000)
- 2010 - 2011 Inserm Scientific Excellence Award
- 2007 International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders (VASCOG), Founding Member
- 2005 - 2010 Interface with Clinical Research Award, Ministry of Health,
- 2001 Visiting Professor, Institute for International Health, University of Sydney (Australie)
- 1993 Migraine and Headache Prize Glaxo
