Specialty Division

Cancer and Immunobiology

Research Expertise

Molecular mechanisms of TDP-43 mediated neurodegeneration
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Alzheimer's Disease
MicroRNAs biogenesis and function in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Education

B.S. (Chemistry), Rovira i Virgili University, 2000
B.S. (Biochemistry), Rovira i Virgili University, 2001
Master (Advanced Studies in Biological Sciences (DEA)), University of Barcelona, 2003
PhD (Department of Genetics), University of Barcelona, 2007
Master (Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Law), UNED, 2009

Specialty Certification

EMBO-Practical Course on High-throughput microRNA profiling. Heidelberg, Germany, 2008

Postgraduate Training

Postdoctoral researcher, Neuroscience , Genes and Disease Program,Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain., 2007-2010
Postdoctoral researcher “Sara Borrell”, Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration, Institute of Neuropathology, IDIBELL-HuB, Spain., 2010-2012
Postdoctoral researcher “Sara Borrell”, Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, 2012-2017

Awards and Honors

EMBO Scholarship for Practical Course on High-throughput microRNA profiling, 2008
Sara Borrell Post-doctoral fellowship. Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), 2010-2014

Memberships and Professional Organizations

NIH Early Career Reviewer (ECR) reviwer, 2022 - 2022
NIH SBIR/STTR Study section reviewer, 2022 - Present
Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART), 2024 - Present

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Selected Publications