GFAP in plasma and CSF in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s Disease, Down Syndrome and GFAP People with Down syndrome are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease than the general population. In fact, by the age of 70, more than 95% of people with Down syndrome will develop Alzheimer’s...
Welcome to the team
Welcome! We would like to welcome the new members to the Memory Unit. Benjamin Buehner, is a german-canadian student who did his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University, in Canada. He is experienced on Sclerosis and...
Dr. Oriol Dols has received the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award
The Universitat Pompeu Fabra has granted the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award to the doctoral thesis in Biomedicine performed by Dr. Oriol Dols Icardo, entitled “Assessing the genetic overlap in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia”. This...
Three well-differentiated clinical subtypes within dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a disease with a large clinical heterogeneity in which both symptoms and evolution can vary widely among patients. This clinical heterogeneity is linked to the great neuropathological variability found in autopsy. The Sant Pau Memory Unit...
The Sant Pau Memory Unit awarded at the XXII Annual Meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurology
For the second consecutive year, Dr. Ignacio Illán Gala has received the Lluís Barraquer Bordas Prize in recognition for the best oral communication presented at the XXII Annual Meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurology held in Barcelona on May 22 and 23, 2018. In...
Publication: Challenges associated with biomarker-based classification systems
The Sant Pau Memory Unit, in collaboration with researchers from the Hospital Clínic (Barcelona), the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA) and the New York University School of Medicine (New York, USA) has recently published a paper in the journal...
Laura Cervera has been awarded a fellowship to visit the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Department of Neurosciences of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York, USA) have awarded Laura Cervera a 6-month mobility fellowship to visit Dr. Ana María Cuervo‘s...
Sant Pau hosts a meeting of european experts on Alzheimer’s genetics
On April 9th and 10th, Hospital de Sant Pau will host a meeting of 40 european experts in the study of the genetic bases of Alzheimer. This meeting, organized by Dr. Jordi Clarimón, will gather members of the Alzheimer Disease Exome Sequencing Consortium (ADES) and...