Networking
BrainLat | Latin American Brain Health Institute
Institute that seeks to empower innovative leaders in brain health research in Latin America, in full integration with leading centers worldwide. This mission benefits from a partnership with the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
School of Psychology | UAI
Psychology at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez is the response to a vocation that seeks to contribute to the well-being of people and to be managers of social change. Since its inception, in 2002, the school proposes an open and inclusive view, which includes and reflects from the main theoretical currents of psychology .
CSCN | Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience
It is a center of excellence that seeks to develop first level research in social and cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology, cognitive development, neuroscience and education. At the same time, it aims to promote extension courses and spaces for continuous and updated training in the area, as well as the dissemination of research and activities developed in it.
ReDLat | Multi-Partner Consortium to Expand Dementia Research in Latin America
The consortium aims to combine genomic, neuroimaging and behavioral data to improve dementia characterization in diverse populations. ReDLat will develop an innovative, harmonized, and cross-regional approach on two of their most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
LAC-CD | Latin America and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia
Regional organization overseeing and promoting clinical and research activities on dementia. It focuses on (1) training the new generation of health practitioners, (2) setting new networks to support multi-centric research and clinical practice, (3) harmonizing clinical procedures for diagnosis and post-diagnostic support, (4) validating such procedures in unique populations, (5) increasing the appeal of regional and international grant proposals emerging from LAC networks rather than from individual groups, (6) accelerating access to knowledge and evidence-based decisions via a unified platform, (7) setting up effective communication channels to reach and persuade heads of governments and private agencies about the need for integration and regional support via national and regional dementia strategies.
COPRAD | Alzheimer and Other Dementias Professional Corporation
The essential purpose of COPRAD is to ensure the well-being of those, by reducing the social and economic impact caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, both in the public and private spheres, through organization, planning, execution and monitoring programs, projects, initiatives and actions leading to research, education, prevention and treatment of these diseases.
Collaborators
Rodrigo F. Morales Lab
Dr. Morales obtained his BSc degree (biochemistry) from Universidad de Chile. His PhD, also from Universidad de Chile, included all thesis work done at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He joined UTHealth in 2009 as a post-doctoral fellow and was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2012, and an Associate Professor in 2018. Dr. Morales have more than 15 years of experience in the field of protein misfolding diseases, specifically in prion’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. He has extensive experience in protein biochemistry and animal pathology. His main research topics involve the strain and species barrier phenomena in prion diseases, the prion-like nature of Aβ aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease and the pathological interaction between amyloidogenic proteins.
Ines Moreno-Gonzalez
Ramón y Cajal Investigator in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Malaga, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas and Adjunct Professor at the Bernardo O’Higgins University in Chile. She obtained a degree in Biology in 2003 and received her PhD from the University of Malaga in the area of neuroscience in 2009. She has done research stays at Sanofi (France), the University of Seville and the University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland). From 2010 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas and from 2013 to 2019 she was a professor there. She has published almost 50 scientific articles in high impact journals and presented her work in more than 100 papers. She is a reviewer and editor of several scientific journals and a reviewer at the National Institutes of Health (USA) and Alzheimer’s Research UK, among others. In addition, she has received awards for her teaching action and is the chair of the Alliance of Women Alzheimer’s Researchers. She is a member of the Malaga Institute of Biomedicine (IBIMA) and the Networked Biomedical Research Center on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED).
