López-Vales Rubèn

Rubèn López Vales is full professor of the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Universitat de Girona in 2001 and received his PhD in Neuroscience from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2005. He performed a postdoctoral stage at McGill University in Canada (2006-2009), and returned to Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona in 2009. His scientific work is focused at modulating the inflammatory response in central nervous system disorders with the aim at developing novel therapeutic interventions.