Àngels García-cazorla

Biography

  She received her M.D. from the University of Barcelona Medical School and obtained a Pediatrics degree and a Ph.D. in medicine at the “Universitat Autonoma  de Barcelona”. She did her predoctoral training in the department of Neurology, Genetics and Metabolism at Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades (Université Réné Descartes, Paris) from 1998 to 2000, and did a post-doctoral research fellowship in the department of Neurology at Columbia University (New York, USA) from 2007 to 2008. Since 2001, she is a Staff Pediatric Neurologist in the Department of Neurology at the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu in Barcelona and started coordinating the Neurometabolic Unit in 2013.  She founded the Synaptic Neuropediatric’s Laboratory of the Fundació Sant Joan de Déu (FSJD) in 2009. 

Research Interest

 research interest is in the pathophysiology of neurotransmission and synaptic communication in  rare neurometabolic and neurogenetic disorders, but also in exploring common neuropediatric diseases from  a “synapto-metabolic” perspective.