Lola Capilla

Dr. Lola Capilla earned a degree in Biotechnology from Universidad Miguel Hernández and completed a Master’s in Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona. In 2023, she obtained an international PhD in Neurosciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) supported by an FPI fellowship, under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Saura. Her thesis focused on … Read more

Pablo Aguilar Domínguez

Pablo Aguilar Domínguez

Pablo Aguilar Domínguez graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, with a focus on medical imaging and image processing. He completed a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2023, he joined the Memory Unit, he is also part of ISGlobal under the supervision … Read more

Francesca Imbastari

Francesca Imbastari

Francesca Imbastari is a highly accomplished biologist with extensive experience in both academic research and clinical trial management. She specializes in oncology, particularly in translational and preclinical research, with a strong focus on cancer growth, metastasis, and biomarker discovery. Currently, she is Senior Project Manager in Synapsing’s project at IRSP but she also served as … Read more

Danna Perlaza

Danna Perlaza graduated in Genetics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2022 and obtained her master’s degree in Translational Biomedical Research from Vall d’Hebron-UAB in 2023. During the last year of her degree, she joined the Sant Pau Memory Unit for an extracurricular internship under the supervision of Dr. Olivia Belbin, where she participated … Read more

Esther Álvarez Sánchez

Esther Álvarez Sánchez - Unidad de Memoria

Esther Álvarez Sánchez graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Málaga in 2020. In that same year, she embarked on her studies in the Master of Biomedical Neuroscience at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Throughout this period, she completed three internships in various departments: Experimental Neuroimmunology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar hospital, … Read more

The effect of different preanalytical conditions on the stability of blood biomarkers in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

Clin Chem Lab Med - Mansilla et al. 2023

Stability of plasma samples and Alzheimer’s biomarkers Alzheimer’s disease is considered one of the most common causes of dementia in the elderly. Recently, blood biomarkers: Aβ1-42, Aβ1-40 and phospho Tau181 (p-Tau181), are proving useful in the diagnosis of the disease in research studies, but their analytical stability is unknown. A joint study between the Memory … Read more