Juan De Dios Navarro López

Biography

Dr. Navarro graduated in Pharmacy from the University of Granada and is a Ph.D. in Physiology from Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville (2004), obtaining the qualification of Extraordinary Prize. After completing his Doctoral Thesis, focused on the study of the mechanisms of control of eye movements, he joined the Faculty of Medicine in Albacete where he taught 1 year of teaching in the area of ​​Histology. Subsequently, during 3 years he developed his research Postdoctoral the Dpt. of Physiology & Ear Institute, University College London, where he initiated a research line based on the study of potassium channels in the auditory pathway financed by the Welcome Trust and Marie Curie Program. In 2008, after obtaining a postdoctoral contract Sara Borrell (FIS, Carlos III Health Institute), she joined the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León at the University of Salamanca, where her research focused on the study of the effect of the peptide beta amyloid in the mammalian hippocampus as well as in the study of the functional integration of nerve tissue transplants in injured adult animals. Subsequently Dr. Ramón y Cajal of MICINN and after developing a year of research at the Institute of Neuroscience Federico Oloriz of the University of Granada, finally joined the Physiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Ciudad Real. Dr. Navarro has participated in several projects financed with public and private funds, he has been principal investigator in international, national and regional projects. He has published his results in several magazines of prestige in the area of ​​Neuroscience, as well as in multiple communications to national and international congresses.

Research Interest

Neurophysiological bases of Alzheimer's disease and the integration of neural transplants in the nervous system of adult animals.