Carles Calatayud

Biography

arles Calatayud received his degree in Biotechnology (2011) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. During his last year of the degree, he worked in the Experimental Hepatology Unit at the Health Research Institute La Fe (Valencia) where he investigated the effect of two hepatoendoderm-determining transcription factors in the somatic cell reprogramming to pluripotency. He joined the lab of Dr. Ángel Raya at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in 2012 as a Master student in Biomedical Research. Then, in 2013, he was enrolled with the FPU fellowship in the PhD programme in Biomedicine, Neuroscience research area. In 2015 he moved to CMR[B] with his project and also under the supervision of Dr. Ángel Raya.

Research Interest

The focus of his project is to study the genetic contribution of both the LRRK2 mutation and the genomic environment to the Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis.