Claire André

My research focuses on the links between sleep disturbances and neurodegenerative processes in both normal and pathological aging. I am particularly interested in how sleep disturbances, especially those affecting rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, relate to Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, the degeneration of subcortical neuromodulatory systems, and the emergence of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

I completed my PhD at Inserm U1077 under the supervision of Dr Géraldine Rauchs and Dr Gaël Chételat. In 2020, I moved to Canada for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine (Université de Montréal), under the mentorship of Prof. Nadia Gosselin and Prof. Julie Carrier. Following a visiting research fellowship at the Douglas Mental Health Institute (McGill University) with Prof. Sylvia Villeneuve, I returned to France in August 2024 to join the Neuropresage team.

Since 2026, I have been leading SENPSY, a research program funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), which aims to better understand how sleep contributes to the emergence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.