Hii, I'm Jon Egaña-Huguet

I started my research career during my last year in the Pharmacy bachelor's program in 2014. There, as an internal student at the pharmacology department under the supervision of Dr Joan Sallés, I had my first contact with what in the future would become the main focus of interest of my research, the endocannabinoids. 

After finishing the bachelor's and master's degrees in Neuroscience at the University of the Basque Country, I fulfilled my PhD at the Laboratory of Ultrastructural and Functional Neuroanatomy of the Synapse under the supervision of Dr Pedro Grandes and Dr Izaskun Elezgarai at the same institution, describing the changes accounting in the hippocampi of TRPV1-KO mice concerning the endocannabinoid system components. Once having finished my PhD in 2020, I stayed in the same laboratory for one year as a postdoctoral researcher, completing and ending a couple of research papers belonging to the work previously done during the PhD. 

In 2021, I had the opportunity to start giving Anatomy lessons at the Medicine degree, and since 2022, I have held an assistant teacher position in the Neurosciences department at the University of the Basque Country. Since then, I have shared my research activity with my teaching duties, directing and tutoring different students at different career stages. 

My research is focused on the endocannabinoid system from neurons and glial cells and their involvement on one side in physiological processes, like memory or navigation and in the other side also their implication in pathological states such as neuroinflammation.