Dr. Alberto Lleó, director of the Memory Unit of the Sant Pau Neurology Service and head of the research group Neurobiologia de les Demències de l’IIB Sant Pau, will be one of the 4 researchers participating in the scientific effort organised by La Marató de TV3. On June 12th, at 11 o’clock, at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, it will be possible to meet directly from the researchers the results of 4 research projects that this solidary initiative has promoted. Lluís Bernabé, director of the Fundació La Marató de TV3, will present the report on the occasion of the 20th Symposium, which will bring together researchers from different pathologies that have been overfunded by the 2013 edition of La Marató. Among them, Dr. Javier Pagonabarraga, neurologist of the Parkinson’s and Neurological Movement Disorders Unit of the Sant Pau Neurology Service and researcher at the Sant Pau Research Institute.
Dr. Lleó will speak during the :
The detection, in the liquid cerebrospinal fluid, of the proteins that form the synapse can serve to diagnose early Alzheimer’s disease.
The result of this research has led to an application for a patent and at the present time is working on the development of assistive devices that allow this protein to be measured in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood in a larger number of people to demonstrate the clinical application in more detail.
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