Sara Serrano Requena received her degree in Biomedical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in 2021 and specialised in tissue regeneration during her final year. She did her final degree project at the Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (CBIT) of the UPV on the growth and stimulation of nerve cells for nerve … Read more
Érika Sánchez Aced graduated in Biomedical Sciences in 2021 (University of Barcelona) and obtained her master’s degree in Neurosciences in 2022 (University of Barcelona). During the last year of her degree, she joined the Memory Unit of the Neurology Service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, where she carried out her … Read more
Enrichment of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles from astrocytes Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoparticles that are secreted by all cells in the body. EVs carries multiple cellular components, such as genetic material, proteins and lipid metabolites that often reflect the content of their cell of origin. They are involved in a wide range of functions by acting … Read more
Multimarker panels in FTD Frontotemporal dementia is the most common cause of early-onset dementia and the principal cause of FrontoTemporal Lobular Degeneration (FTLD). Approximately, 90–95% of FTLD cases are characterized by the accumulation in the brain of two different proteins – tau and transactive response DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43). These protein inclusions lead to a loss of … Read more
Alzheimer’s disease and its biomarkers in CSF Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder considered the most common cause of dementia in older people. Although clinical symptoms still form the core of diagnosis, imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers now play an important role in the diagnostic process. Two important neuropathological features of Alzheimer’s are the … Read more
Alba Cervantes González received her degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2018. During the last year of the degree, she did an internship at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom where she studied the effect of mutations on a genetic risk for Parkinson’s disease. She joined the Sant Pau Memory Unit as … Read more