USAL researchers achieve improvements in the movement and sense of smell of mice with brain damage through stem cell transplantation

‘Neuronal Plasticity and Neurorepair’, a group led by Professor José Ramón Alonso, is making progress in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The potential of stem cells to repair brain damage and progress in the treatment of all kinds of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, has been showing significant results in recent years. However, it’s about as complex a field as the brain itself and ensuring the results of every research study is critical.

This is understood by one of the world’s pioneers in this field, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Salamanca, José Ramón Alonso, who, despite his caution, has obtained “unprecedented” results with stem cell transplantation in mice with genetic brain damage, achieving “significant improvements at the motor level and also at the sensory level,” according to the head of research at Communication Universidad de Salamanca.

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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