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neuroengineering, neuromodulation, neuroprosthetics
France

Biography

Trained first as an engineer and then as a neuroscientist, I conduct research at the intersection between Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. I am interested in understanding how the dynamics of neuronal networks become altered in neurological disorders or after injury, and how to restore their natural behaviour using neuromodulation approaches. During my Ph.D. at Brown University, I developed new tools to record and stimulate the brain simultaneously and investigated the cortical dynamics that underlie the transition to epileptic seizures in rodent models and epileptic patients. During my postdoctoral work at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), I pioneered neuroprosthetic technologies to restore locomotion in non-human primates (Nature 2016; Nature Protocols 2018). I then led a large team of scientists, engineers and clinicians to translate these technologies into patients with spinal cord injury in the context of a first-in-human clinical trial (Nature, 2018; Nature Medicine 2022).

I am currently a tenured researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a team leader at the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, a joint unit between CNRS and the Neurocampus department at the University of Bordeaux. I am particularly interested in expanding the use of neuroprosthetic systems beyond their current applications in motor disorders, towards neurocognitive disorders such as memory impairments. I recently obtained an ERC starting grant (call 2021) to conduct this project over the next 5 years.

Activities

Employment (4)

French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS): Bordeaux, FR

2022-10-01 to present | Tenured Researcher (equivalent to Associate Professor), Team Leader: Neuromodulation and Neuroprosthetics (Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases - CNRS UMR 5293, Bordeaux Neurocampus)
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Fabien B. Wagner

University of Bordeaux: Bordeaux, FR

2020-04-01 to 2022-09-30 | Team leader: Neuromodulation and Neuroprosthetics (Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases - CNRS UMR 5293, Bordeaux Neurocampus)
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Fabien B. Wagner

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): Lausanne, VD, CH

2015-01-01 to 2020-03-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute , School of Life Sciences, Laboratory of Prof. G. Courtine)
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Fabien B. Wagner

Brown University: Providence, RI, US

2014-09-01 to 2014-12-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Neuroscience, Laboratory of Prof. W. Truccolo)
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Fabien B. Wagner

Education and qualifications (2)

Brown University: Providence, RI, US

2009-09-01 to 2014-09-01 | PhD (Neuroscience, Laboratory of Prof. A. Nurmikko)
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Fabien B. Wagner

Ecole Polytechnique: Paris, FR

2006-09-01 to 2009-09-01 | MS (Engineering)
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Fabien B. Wagner

Funding (4)

MEMOPROSTHETICS: Neuroprosthetic Modulation of Large-Scale Brain Networks for Treating Memory Disorders

2022-10 to 2027-09 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels, BE)
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Fabien B. Wagner

Neurocampus Chair of Excellence for Young Group Leader

2020-03 to 2023-03 | Grant
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine and University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, FR)
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Fabien B. Wagner

From spikes to electrocorticograms: brain-spinal interfaces across cortical spatial scales to restore locomotion after spinal cord injury

2016-04 to 2018-04 | Salary award
EPFL (Lausanne, CH)
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H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015

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Fabien B. Wagner

Optogenetic control of seizures in a rat model of absence epilepsy

2011-09 to 2012-09 | Salary award
Epilepsy Foundation (Landover, MD, US)
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Epilepsy Foundation Meritorious Research Fall2011 FY12

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Fabien B. Wagner

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Advanced science. (1)