The Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC) is the research center of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. It was created in 2012 with the support of Pompeu Fabra University. Its flagship project, the ALFA cohort, is supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation. The board of the center ismade up of representatives of both entities and other institutions.
The External Scientific Advisory Board of the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center is composed of renowned researchers in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases.
External Scientific Advisory Board
Frederik Barkhof
Frederik Barkhof
Professor of Neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at the VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Professor at the University College of London institutes of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, London, UK. Senior fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and leaderof the Queen Square MS Centre Trial Unit in London.
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow
Head of the research team on Neurochemical Pathogenesis and Diagnostics in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Head of the Clinical Neurochemistry Lab at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.Torsten Södeberg Professorship in Medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciencies.
Bruno Dubois
Bruno Dubois
Director of the Dementia Centre and head of research at the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM) in the Hospital Salpêtrière of Paris, France. Head of the Paris Center of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (CoEN) and leader of the France Alzheimer Association (CoEN) and IFRAD scientific comittees.
Miia Kivipelto
Miia Kivipelto
Professor of Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology in the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Director of Research, Development, Education and Innovation of Theme Aging at Karolinska University Hospital.
John C. Morris
John C. Morris
Director of the Section of Memory & Aging Adult Neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA, and the Harvey A and Dorismae Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology.
M. Angela Nieto
M. Angela Nieto
Full Professor at Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain. President of the International Society Developmental Biologists (ISDB), Spanish scientific delegate for EMBL-EMBC Councils from 2010 and Board of Directors of the International Society of Differentiation (ISD).
Reisa A. Sperling
Reisa A. Sperling
Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, Co-Director of the Neuroimaging Core at the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Sylvia Villeneuve
Sylvia Villeneuve
Associate Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. Director of the StoP-AD Centre and the PREVENT-AD cohort.
Pablo Villoslada
Pablo Villoslada
Founder and medical director of Accure Therapeutics and Attune Neurosciences. Head of Pathogenesis and New Therapies MS at IDIBAPS in Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.