Neurosciences
Peripheral Nervous System
Josep Gámez
Researchers Maria Dolors Pelegrí Santos | Researchers in training Sonia Cazorla Cavaller, Cecília García Rodríguez, Eva Lopez Toledano, Maria Salvadó Figueras | Nursing, Technical, and Administrative Staff M. Mercè Badia Cantó, Elia Sanjuan Estaun
Summary
In 2015, Dr Gamez, as a member of ALSuntangled, has actively participated in the publication of scientific research data on MND off-label treatments.
Dr. Gamez was one of the lecturers of the III Catalan Ataxias meeting, organized by the Catalan Association for Ataxias in Barcelona, on January 2015, reviewing the usefulness of functional rating scales for the assessment and follow-up of ataxias. At the 19th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders held in San Diego, Dr Gamez presented the outcomes of the first study to investigate the [123I]-FP-CIT DaTSCAN SPECT as a disease pre-synaptic biomarker in Huntington’s disease patients.
Dr. Gamez gave the keynote speech “From bench to bed: translational medicine applied to neuromuscular diseases” of the 30th Spanish Conference on Neuromuscular Diseases, talking about the benefits of the translational medicine, and the leadership of Vall d’Hebron in terms of patient care and research on neuromuscular diseases in Spain. Dr. Gamez presented the case of Vall d’Hebron as a success of translational medicine.