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7. SOCIAL OUTREACH

tiago de Compostela and was held at the Faculty with a talk on the search for genes involved in neu-
of Medicine of the University of Santiago, whose au- rodegenerative diseases, and Prof. José Luis Laban-
ditorium hosted the opening ceremony and plenary deira-García.
sessions.
During the Opening Session, chaired by Her Majesty
Among the speakers were world research leaders Queen Sofia, She was accompanied by the Secre-
such as Harald-Jürgen Hampel (Sorbonne Univer- tary of State for Universities, Research, Development
sity –France-), Michael T. Heneka (Medical Rese- and Innovation, Ángeles Heras; the President of the
arch Center of the University of Bonn –Germany), Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo; the President
which discussed on the relationship between in- of the Parliament of Galicia, Miguel Ángel Santali-
nate aspects of the immune system and Alzhei- ces; the Delegate of the Government in the Region
mer's disease, and Adriano Chiò (University of of Galicia, Javier Losada; the fFrst Deputy Mayor of
Turin –Italy-), who deepened into the role of cog- the City of Santiago de Compostela, María Rozas;
nitive phenotypes. and by the Magnificent Rector of the University of
Santiago de Compostela, Antonio López Díaz,
In addition to the intervention of the Scientific Direc- among other personalities.
tor of the CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED, Jesús
Ávila, and the Deputy Scientific Director, Miguel Me- After the interventions of the Magnificent Rector and
dina, the Congress had Spanish speakers of interna- the authorities, Jesús Ávila, Scientific Director of CIEN
tional prestige, including Isabel Fariñas (University of Foundation and CIBERNED, introduced the lecture
Valencia), whose lecture focused on the effects of by Harald-Jürgen Hampel, from the Sorbonne Uni-
certain extracellular proteins in stem cells; Ángel Ca- versity (France), who disserted on the progress in pre-
rracedo (University of Santiago de Compostela), cision medicine for Alzheimer's disease.

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