Ramón Cacabelos, M.D., Ph.D., D.M.Sc.
(Spain), Board of Directors

Dr. Cacabelos is Director and Chairman of the EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center and Professor and Chairman of the EuroEspes Chair of Biotechnology and Genomics in Spain, and has been an IPA member since 1990. From 1981-1987, Dr. Cacabelos was a Research Fellow and worked with Professors Tsuyoshi Nishimura and Masatoshi Takeda in the Department of Psychiatry at Osaka University Medical School in Osaka, Japan before returning to Spain. He spent several years teaching at Santiago University Medical School and then at Complutense University. Since 1995, he has been affiliated with the EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center which is a university department with four main divisions: Clinical Neuroscience, Human Genetics, Pharmacogenetics, and Human Nutrition. Over the past ten years Dr. Cacabelos has also served as President of the EuroEspes Foundation, a non-profit organization for the dissemination of scientific knowledge as well as financial and healthcare support for disabled people, particularly patients with CNS disorders and dementia.

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Cacabelos’ main work and scientific interests have been the organization of healthcare facilities for patients with dementia, the organization and development of academic and research projects for dementia (diagnostic protocols, drug development and clinical trials), and the organization and development of specific programs for the introduction of genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics as priority issues in CNS disorders. These activities include research programs for the elucidation of disease pathogenesis, neurogenetics, structural and functional genomics, pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, as well as the development of new drugs and novel nutraceutrical products.

Dr. Cacabelos has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2009. He can be contacted at rcacabelos@euroespes.com.

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