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Dr. Isidro Ferrer Abizanda

Dr. Isidro Ferrer Abizanda is a Spanish neuropathologist and professor of Pathological Anatomy at the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics of the University of Barcelona in Spain. He was Director of the Institute of Neuropathology and Brain Bank at the Bellvitge University Hospital, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, until his retirement from the hospital; coordinator of the area of Neuropathology at the Biomedical Research Institute of Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Hospitalet de Llobregat; member of the Institute of Neurosciences at the University of Barcelona; and research leader of the area of neuropathology in the domain of Alzheimer's disease and dementias at the Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases Network (CIBERNED). He has published over 900 articles in the world's premier neuroscience journals. Early Life & Education

Dr. Ferrer was born in 1951 in Barcelona, Spain. He received his degree in medicine from the University of Barcelona in 1976, followed by his Ph.D. in 1978 from the same university. Research & Career

Dr. Ferrer’s current research interests include brain aging, molecular neuropathology, and diseases of the nervous system associated with aberrant protein aggregates. He has identified novel alterations in metabolic pathways, clusters, and hubs in the aging nervous system and early stages of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, tauopathies, frontotemporal lobar dementia, prion diseases, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. With more than 40 years of professional experience, Dr. Ferrer has studied normal and abnormal development of the central nervous system, metabolic and degenerative diseases in childhood and adolescence, vascular, infectious, and degenerative diseases of the central nervous system, muscular diseases, and diseases of the peripheral nervous system. He has acted as a consultant neuropathologist in many hospitals and institutes. He was the founder and coordinator of the Neuropathology Unit at the Bellvitge University Hospital. He served as Director of the Institute of Neuropathology and Brain Bank at the Bellvitge University Hospital from 1996 until his retirement in 2016. He was the Sub-director of Research at the Bellvitge University Hospital, Coordinator of the Spanish Research Center of Neurological Diseases at the Institute Carlos III, and Vice-Chancellor of Research Policy at the University of Barcelona. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Barcelona and an emeritus researcher at IDIBELL.

Awards & Honors

Dr. Ferrer’s awards include the Narcis Monturiol Prize for Research from the Government of Catalonia (2003), Barcelona Medical Association for Research Award (2006), Research Award of the Catalan Institute of Health (2008), Alfons Maria Jakob Silver Medal of the German Society of Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (2016), Ramon Turro Award (2016) from the Catalan Society of Biology at the Institute of Catalan Studies, International Mano Amiga award from Alzheimer León (2018), Spanish Neurological Society Award (2019), and the Award of the International Research Promotion Council (2021). He has been a member of numerous professional societies including the Spanish Neuropathology Club, where he served as president, the Academy of Medicine of Barcelona, and the Academy of Europe.

Patents

Dr. Ferrer has obtained many patents for his innovations, including Egfr and pten gene alterations to predict survival in patients with brain tumors (US20110166409A1) (EP2510113B1), mitochondrial markers of neurodegenerative diseases (ES2744592T3), and multi-target drug compounds for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders (EP2818467A1).

Publications

Ferrer I. Defining Alzheimer´s as a common age-related neurodegenerative process not inevitably leading to dementia. Progress in Neurobiology. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2012.03.005

Ferrer I. Sisyphus in Neverland. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease. doi: 10.3233/JAD-170609.

Ferrer I. Oligodendrogliopathy in neurodegenerative diseases with abnormal protein aggregates: The forgotten partner. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2018.07.004.

Ferrer I, Andrés-Benito P, Zelaya MV, Aguirre MEE, Carmona M, Ausín K, Lachén-Montes M, Fernández-Irigoyen J, Santamaría E, Del Rio JA. Familial globular glial tauopathy linked to MAPT mutations: molecular neuropathology and seeding capacity of a prototypical mixed neuronal and glial tauopathy. Acta Neuropathologica. doi: 10.1007/s00401-019-02122-9. Ferrer I, Andrés-Benito P, Ausín K, Pamplona R, Del Rio JA, Fernández-Irigoyen J, Santamaría E. Dysregulated protein phosphorylation: A determining condition in the continuum of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease. Brain Pathology. doi: 10.1111/bpa.12996.

External Links

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Isidro-Ferrer-2119764444 https://ciberned-es.translate.goog/grupo-isidro.html?_