Jocelyne Bloch
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Neuroscientist
Jocelyne Bloch | |
|---|---|
 Jocelyne Bloch in 2019 | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58)[1] |
| Occupations | Neurosurgeon Neuroscientist |
| Known for | Neurorehabilitation |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Lausanne University |
| Thesis | (1994) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medicine |
| Sub-discipline | Neurosurgery |
| Institutions | Lausanne University Hospital EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) |
| Main interests | Neurosurgery Deep brain stimulation Brain repair for movement disorders |
| Website | https://www.neurorestore.swiss |
Jocelyne Bloch (born 1968) is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).[2][3]
Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002.[4] Her area of expertise is deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders.[5] In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal cord injury affecting the lower limbs.[6]
Since 2019 she has also been an adjunct professor of neuroscience at EPFL.[3][7] Since 2019, Bloch together with Grégoire Courtine, leads the .Neurorestore Laboratory, jointly managed by the Lausanne University Hospital, the University of Lausanne, the Defitech Foundation and the EPFL.[8][9]
Bloch was awarded the Ronald Tasker Award (2019) of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery for her innovative research in neuromodulation and spinal cord repair.[10][11]
Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine were named in Time 2024 100 influential people in health list.[12]
In 2026, she received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering jointly with Grégoire Courtine.[13]
