Renaud La Joie, PhD
Renaud La Joie originally studied medicine in his native Normandy before graduating with a master’s degree in neuroscience from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He then pursued a PhD degree in neuropsychology with Gael Chételat and Béatrice Desgranges, where he studied Alzheimer's disease using multimodal PET and MRI imaging. Dr. La Joie then spent a year with Dr. William Jagust at the University of California, Berkeley before joining Dr. Gil Rabinovici’s lab at the Memory and Aging Center in March 2016.
His current work is focused on brain imaging techniques to investigate the propagation of abnormal protein deposits in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Renaud received the Young Scientist award from the Alzheimer’s Association in September 2017, the Young Investigator award at the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference in January 2018, in 2020 both the de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging (new investigator category) from the Alzheimer’s Association and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars from the UCSF Graduate Division and Office for Postdoctoral Scholars for the work he has been conducting at the MAC.