Rubèn López Vales

Full professor of the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UAB

Location

Barcelona

Description

Rubèn graduated in Biology from the Universitat de Girona in 2001 and obtained a doctorate in Neuroscience from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada (2006-2009). In 2009 he returned to the UAB as an assistant professor in the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology. In 2014 he obtained the position of associate professor at the UAB and in 2019 became a full professor at the Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology and researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the same university, where he leads the Neuroplasticity and Regeneration Research Group.

He studies the contribution of inflammation to tissue damage after spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. He has 61 publications in such leading journals as Brain, Annals of Neurology, PNAS, Theranostics, Journal of Neuroscience and Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. His research has also resulted in six patents, two of which are currently in national phases and preclinical development. In addition, he has supervised nine doctoral theses and five master's theses. He has also been awarded an ICREA Academia.

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