Frontiers in Neuroscience seminar - “CIEN – A unique center for Neurodegenerative Diseases”

Welcome to a Frontiers in Neuroscience talk by DR. PASCUAL SÁNCHEZ-JUAN, Center for Research on Neurological Diseases (CIEN)

Lecture title: CIEN – A unique center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Lecture host: Professor Oskar Hansson

About the speaker:
Dr. Pascual Sánchez-Juan is a neurologist and researcher who specializes in genetic epidemiology and biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Pascual Sánchez holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Navarra, a Ph.D. in Genetic Epidemiology from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and completed a research fellowship at the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland, which served as the focus of his doctoral thesis. He further specialized in neurology with a focus on dementia at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in San Francisco (USA). Dr. Sánchez trained as a neurologist at the Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital in Santander, where he was responsible for the Cognitive Impairment Unit and served as the scientific director of the Valdecilla Biobank until 2021.

He is the coordinator and co-founder of the Spanish Dementia Genetic Consortium (DEGESCO) and has led the Valdecilla Study for Memory and Brain Aging since 2018. Currently, he serves as the Scientific Director of Fundación CIEN and is the coordinator of the largest project ever funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) for the study of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers (SCAP.AD).

Dr. Sánchez is among the most cited clinical neurologists in Spain in the area of dementia. He is the co-author of more than 200 publications in international journals, accumulating more than 23,900 citations (H-index of 57). He is the senior author of pivotal articles in the field of dementia, including the diagnostic criteria for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, published in Brain, which has received more than 1,000 citations.

The lecture will be followed by a mingle.