Pascual Sánchez-Juan, trained as a Neurologist at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV), and completed his specialisation in Behavioural Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center (San Francisco, USA). He obtained his PhD in Genetic Epidemiology at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). He is accredited by ANECA as a tenured university lecturer.
Pascual Sánchez-Juan co-founded the DEmentia GEnetics Spanish COnsortium (DEGESCO) in 2012. In 2018 he launched the Valdecilla Study for Memory and Brain Ageing. He founded the HUMV Memory Unit in 2009 and the Valdecilla biobank in 2006; he directed both units until August 2021, when he joined CIEN as scientific director.
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