Sonia Villapol
I graduated from the University of Santiago of Compostela, Spain in 2002 with a Bachelor´s degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and received my Master´s degree and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain in 2007. Starting in 2007, I was working as a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS in the University Pierre and Marie Curie VI and at INSERM in Paris, France; and at NIH and USUHS/Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine in Bethesda, MD. In 2014, I joined to Georgetown University where I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience.
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Sonia Villapol é Profesora de Neurociencias na Universidade de Georgetown en Washington DC (EEUU). Licenciada en Bioloxía Molecular pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2003), e Doutora en Neurociencias pola Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona (2007). Traballou coma investigadora postdoutoral en laboratorios do Centro Nacional da Investigación científica (CNRS) da Universidade Pierre e Marie Curie VI e no Instituto Nacional de sanidade e investigación médica (INSERM) do Hospital Robert Debré, en París (Francia). No ano 2010 trasladouse a EEUU, traballou nos Institutos Nacionais de Salude (NIH) e no Centro de Neurociencias e Medicina Rexenerativa, en Maryland (EEUU). A súa investigación científica centranse no estudo de danos cerebrais, tanto infartos cerebrais, coma traumatismos craneoencefálicos, experimentando distintos tratamentos reparadores e explorando os mecanismos de resposta a múltiples procesos relacionados coa morte das neuronas.