VILA BOVER, Miquel

Academic training

Doctor in Neurosciences, University of Paris 6-Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (Paris, France)
Master's Degree in Neurosciences, University of Paris 6-Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (Paris, France)
Graduate in Medicine and Surgery, University of Barcelona

Professional experience

I have a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1993) and a Doctor in Neurosciences from the University of Paris 6 (1998). My doctoral work carried out in the experimental neurology laboratory at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (1993-98) contributed to establishing the subthalamic nucleus as the main therapeutic target for the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease with deep brain stimulation. From 1998 to 2005 I worked at the Movement Disorders Unit at Columbia University in New York (USA), initially as a postdoctoral researcher and since 2001 as a Full Professor of Neurology at this university, focused on the study of the mechanisms of neuronal death. in Parkinson's disease to identify new therapeutic targets for this disease.

In 2006 I moved to Barcelona as ICREA Research Professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) to found and direct a new research group in neurodegenerative diseases at the Vall de Hebron Research Institute (VHIR). Since then, our group has established itself as a reference in the study of Parkinson's disease and is part of the Center for Biomedical Research Network in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED) and the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Collaborative Research Network (ASAP-*CRN).
I am also an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​principal investigator of CIBERNED, principal investigator coordinator of ASAP-*CRN and member of the Steering Committees of the World Parkinson Coalition and of the Basic Science Special Interest Group of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.