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Annual Report 2019
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CIEN Foundation Seminar Series
The CIEN Foundation has organized this Seminar Series since the beginning of 2015, in which, every Monday afternoon, speakers from both the Foundation and guests from other related institutions, present their work and then the issues are debat- ed. The following are the seminars developed in our Alzheimer Center of Vallecas during 2019:
• January 14 - Dr. Alberto Rábano (Head of Neuropathology and Director of the CIEN Foundation Tissue Bank): “Amygdala-predominant Lewy pathology: back- ground, materials and methods for a project”.
• January 28 - Prof. Jesús Ávila (Scientific Director, CIEN Foundation -CIBERNED): “The Vallecas project”
• February 4 - Dr. Miguel Medina, Deputy Scientific Director of CIBERNED, PI Valle- cas project: “Update on biomarker studies in the Vallecas Project”
• February 11 - Dr. Teodoro del Ser (Coordinator, Neurology Area CIEN Foundation): “What cognitive reserve is?”
• February 18 - Prof. Bryan Strange (responsable del Dpto. de Neuroimagen de la Fundación CIEN): “Memory loss and memory preservation in Vallecas”
• February 25 - Dr. Miguel Ángel Fernández, coordinator of the CIEN Foundation Neuropsychology Department: “Longevity Research Program Spain-Portugal +90 (PILEP + 90)”
• March 11 - Dr. Miguel Calero, coordinador del departamento de Biología Molecu- lar de la Fundación CIEN: “Molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases”
• April 1 - Dr. José María Galván (La Princesa Biomedical Research Institute; Inter- nal Medicine Service; University Hospital of the Princess): “Down Syndrome”
• April 8 de - Dr. Alberto Rábano (Head of Neuropathology at CIEN Foundation and Director of the CIEN Tissue Bank) and Valentina González (biologist, quality and special samples program in the Area of Neuropathology at CIEN Foundation): “A new taupathy in a new context. ARTAG associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to a new GRN mutation “
• April 29 - Belén Frades, neuropsychologist at CIEN Foundation: “ Characterization of language and executive functions in volunteers with MCI from the Vallecas project “
• May 20 - Jesús Ávila, Scientific Director at CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED: “ Neu- ronal Regeneration “
• June 17 - Kimberly Bress, Predoctoral Fellow, Fullbright Grant (Institute of Inter- national Education), at CIEN Foundation: “Pathological gradients along the lon- gitudinal axis of the human hippocampus in Alzheimer’s Disease”.
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