Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series

• 5 February, 16:00, E11073, BMC

Invited speaker: Dr. Pascual Sanchez-Juan, Center for Research on Neurological Diseases (CIEN)

Lecture title: CIEN – A unique center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Lecture host: Professor Oskar Hansson

About the speaker:
Dr. Pascual Sánchez-Juan is a neurologist and researcher who specializes in genetic epidemiology and biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr. Pascual Sánchez holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Navarra, a Ph.D. in Genetic Epidemiology from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and completed a research fellowship at the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland, which served as the focus of his doctoral thesis. He further specialized in neurology with a focus on dementia at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in San Francisco (USA). Dr. Sánchez trained as a neurologist at the Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital in Santander, where he was responsible for the Cognitive Impairment Unit and served as the scientific director of the Valdecilla Biobank until 2021.
He is the coordinator and co-founder of the Spanish Dementia Genetic Consortium (DEGESCO) and has led the Valdecilla Study for Memory and Brain Aging since 2018. Currently, he serves as the Scientific Director of Fundación CIEN and is the coordinator of the largest project ever funded by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) for the study of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers (SCAP.AD).
Dr. Sánchez is among the most cited clinical neurologists in Spain in the area of dementia. He is the co-author of more than 200 publications in international journals, accumulating more than 23,900 citations (H-index of 57). He is the senior author of pivotal articles in the field of dementia, including the diagnostic criteria for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, published in Brain, which has received more than 1,000 citations.

• 15 May, 16:00, room E16003, BMC 

Invited speaker: Juho Joutsa, MD, PhD Professor of neurology, University of Turku, Finland. 

Lecture title: Post-stroke movement disorders

Lecture host: Per Odin

About the speaker:
Prof. Joutsa is a movement disorder neurologist with special interest in lesion-induced symptoms andneuromodulation (rTMS, DBS, MRgFUS). He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and worked as an associate professor of neuroimaging at University of Turku before starting in his current positions. Prof. Joutsa leads a 30-person research lab (Brain Stimulation and Neuroimaging laboratory, TurkuBrainlab). Despite his young age, he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers of which several in the leading journals of the field. Prof. Joutsa is the youngest professor of neurology in Finland, he has received multiple recognitions and awards for his research work, including being named among to 100 most influential people in medicine in Finland andreceiving a Young Investigator Award given biannually to only one scientist across all fields of medicine in Finland. Currently, Prof. Joutsa is the vice chair of the MDS post-stroke movement disorders (PSMD) study group and leads an international multicenter study on PSMDs.