Study of olfactory and cognitive disorders caused by a pathogen other than coronavirus with the Pasteur Institute
The Per Fumum Endowment Fund continues its collaboration with the Pasteur Institute and extends the study of olfactory disorders caused by a pathogen other than the coronavirus, such as head trauma, congenital malformation, neurodegenerative disease or aging. The objective of this new research following the ETOC study is now to develop on a large scale a diagnostic method not yet present in France: the measurement of olfactory evoked potentials (OEP) .
This approach will allow to collect and characterize the “olfactory neuronal signatures” associated with the different causes of olfactory disorders, as well as to sensitize practitioners to this method unknown in France because of its technical character.
Perception and Memory Unit of the Institut Pasteur
Pierre-Marie LLEDO
Professor Pierre-Marie Lledo is a neuroscientist and heads the “Perception and Memory” unit at the Pasteur Institute and the “Genes and Consciousness” unit at the C.N.R.S. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences. An award-winning expert on brain function, he won the 2007 Grand Prix of the French National Academy of Medicine for his work on brain regeneration.
ENT department at Lariboisière Hospital
Cassandre DJIAN
Cassandre Djian is a doctor specializing in the treatment of disorders of the sense of smell in the ENT department at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. Together with the Functional Explorations Unit team, she cares for patients with disorders of the sense of smell caused by various pathologies: tumors, viral infections, degenerative pathologies, cranial trauma. Her unit works in collaboration with Prof. Pierre Marie Lledo's research team at the Institut Pasteur, to make progress in characterizing their patients' sense of smell disorders.
(c) Institut Pasteur – photo François Gardy