Lucia Fernandez-Novoa
Head of the Department of Molecular Genetics , Madrid Spain
Biography
Lucia Fernandez-Novoa is graduated in Medicine and Surgery at Santiago University Medical School, Santiago de Compostela. She subsequently obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA, in where she researched the biochemistry of brain neurotransmission. She was granted a Fellowship by the Ministry of Education and Science, and carried out her research work at the Human Physiology Department of the Complutense University Medical School. She joined the EuroEspes group in 1995 and has been head of the Department of Molecular Genetics since 1998. To date she has written and participated in numerous research publications in the field of the genetics of neurodegerative disorders. Fernandez-Novoa has taken part in numerous basic and clinical research projects concerning principally Alzheimer’s disease. Her scientific work over the years has concentrated on the field of neurodegeneration, from both the genetic and physiopathologic points of view.
Abstract
Abstract : A genomic approach to histamine function