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1. PROFILE AND PRESENTATION

What do you think makes a Center like this one become a benchmark in the fight against
Alzheimer's?

The human and professional team, both at the management and research level. In addition, the unique-
ness of the Center in which we are, because there are no other Centers in Spain of this type and that makes
it a reference.
The different research projects in which we work, including the Vallecas Project (funded by the Queen Sofia
Foundation) that has made us known as our society and specifically as elderly people voluntarily come
every year without losing the desire and the smile, so that the research can follow a good course towards
the prevention of this tough disease; or the Research Program of the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer
Center and without forgetting the BT-CIEN Tissue Bank that has become one of the most important banks
due to the activity of brain donation.

How do you see the Alzheimer's Center in another 10 years?

I would love to say that I see this Center in a positive evolution very accentuated in terms of research re-
sults, compared to the one obtained in the past 10 years; but this advance will be marked by the econo-
mic decisions that our country has in front of the research.
Because even if we do not like neurodegenerative diseases, they will affect more people and a Center like
this is necessary so that this number can be stopped.

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