Short profile

Since October 2020, Dr. Vincent Pernet is a research group leader in the laboratory of Neuroimmunology at the department of Neurology of Bern University Hospital. His current research is focused on the mechanisms of neuronal degeneration, plasticity and repair in the central nervous system (CNS) after traumatic injuries and in inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Before being recruited at Bern University Hospital, Dr. Pernet has been a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University Laval in Quebec City, Canada, at the rank of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (2014-2020). He has been deputy director of the retina and posterior segment division of the Vision Health Research Network of the FRQS, an important provincial health organization, and a member of the animal welfare committee of the University Laval. From 2006 to 2011, he has been a junior group leader and postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Martin. E. Schwab at the Brain research institute of Zurich. He has developed a research program on the role of the myelin-associated protein Nogo-A in CNS development and with strategies consisting of blocking Nogo-A to protect visual neurons in different injury paradigms, including optic nerve lesion, retinal ischemia and excitotoxicity. He also studied the molecular mechanisms involved in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-induced neuronal growth and survival during his PhD. at the University of Montreal under the supervision of Prof. Adriana Di Polo (2001-2006).

Berufliche Tätigkeiten / Klinischer Werdegang

• The Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
• The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)