Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, MD PhD, Associate Prof of Neurology

Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is the recipient of the Araminta Broch-Healey Endowed Chair in ALS, and associate member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She is a member of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Mass General and serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS), the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Tambourine Foundation and the Packard Center for ALS Research at Hopkins Medical School. She trained as a medical geneticistand neuroscientist in Strasbourg, Columbia University and UC San Diego. She was awarded the 6thInternational Paulo Gontijo Award in Medicine, the 2017 MIND Satter Young Investigator Award, the 2017 Grass Foundation – American Neurological Association Award in Neuroscience, the 2022 Drs. Lalji & Family ALS Endowed Award for Innovative Healing, the 2023 World Medical Innovation First Look Award,the 2024 Radala Foundation Award and the 2025 NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. Her team investigates the molecular mechanisms driving neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). She has established collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners to develop novel approaches to therapy, including RNA-targeting antisense oligonucleotides and immunotherapies for ALS and FTD.