Molecular bases of age-related hearing loss: oxidative stress and neuroinflammation
Isabel Varela Nieto
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Sols-Morreale (IIBM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
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Bio
Currently, Dr Isabel Varela Nieto is the Advisory Board Member to the Presidency of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is a research professor and head of the Neuropathology of Hearing and Myelinopathies research group at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Sols-Morreale, IIBM (CSIC-UAM). She holds a PhD in Biochemistry (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1985) and is an expert in Audiology from the University of Salamanca. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Universities of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and Leuven (Belgium, 1986–1989, EMBO Fellow). She has served as an invited visiting scientist at the Medical Schools of Uppsala University (FEBS Fellow; 1993, Sweden) and the University of San Diego (MEC sabbatical grant, 1999–2000, USA). She is a member of the Spanish Rare Disease Research Network (CIBERER) and the IdiPAZ Research Institute. She authored over 125 articles and book chapters, 4 patents, 37 projects funded by national and international public institutions, 5 projects funded by pharmaceutical companies, and 4 European projects.
About
Her research is aimed at increasing the knowledge on the genetic and molecular bases of human deafness and vestibular schwannomas.
Hosted by PI Mabel Loza, Pharmacology Applied to Drug Discovery Group, CiMUS.
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