Jose-Vicente Lafuente
Professor
University of Basque Country
Spain
Biography
Jose-Vicente Lafuente received his Degree in Medicine and Ph.D. from University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is Full Professor for Human Anatomy and Embryology at the Department of Neurosciences, University of Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain). He has supervised more than 20 M.D. and Ph.D. students. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Valparaiso (Chile, 2011) and Cuyo, (Mendoza, Argentina, 2009) and Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Neuropathology of the Free University of Berlin (Germany, 1997) and the Department of Pathology. Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology. Birmingham (U.K., 1992). His main Research interests are in neuropathology and neurobiology of brain edema, adaptive postnatal changes in the microvasculature of the central nervous system in health and disease. He has been autor of 140 original papers and 33 reviewed book chapters. He has leadered or taken part in 43 research projects supported by public or privat institutions. He is actively involved in cooperative networking in neuroscience research.
Research Interest
His main Research interests are in neuropathology and neurobiology of brain edema, adaptive postnatal changes in the microvasculature of the central nervous system in health and disease