After studying medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, Professor Hugon completed an internship in neurology at the University of Limoges. He then worked as a physician at Taez Hospital in Yemen and served as a Research Associate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York from 1984 to 1986. During this period, he obtained a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Paris, focusing on Guam’s disease, which combines features of Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

 

After serving for two years as a hospital practitioner in neurology, he was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Limoges in 1989, while also working as a consultant neurologist. In the late 1990s, he was appointed Chair of Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital, where he became Head of Department. 

 

Upon his return to France in 2003, he was appointed full professor at Poitiers University Hospital, working in the Department of Neurology. Since 2006, he has been a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Université Paris Cité and at Lariboisière Hospital, where he led the Center for Cognitive Neurology for 12 years.

 

He has been an Honorary Professor at The University of Hong Kong and is Emeritus Professor at Université Paris Cité. He is a consultant neurologist at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris (Center for Cognitive Neurology) and at the Center for Advanced Neurology in Paris. His is a member of the Inserm Unit 1144, of the World Federation of Neurology and the European Federation of Neurology as well as the European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium. His current clinical and research interests include biomarkers and molecular signaling changes in neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, as well as long COVID. He has authored more than 400 publications.