Maria Llorens-Martín

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Areas of Interest: 

hippocampus adult neurogenesis, Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer's disease; neurodegeneration; neuroprotection; brain repair; environmental enrichment; neuronal morphology; Electrophysiology; pharmacological agents; animal models; animal behavioural testing.

Biography & Research: 

María Llorens-Martín received her Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 2009 for her research into the effects of physical exercise on adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN), which was conducted at the Cajal Institute (Madrid, Spain). In 2010, she joined Prof. Jesús Ávila´s lab at the Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (CBMSO) as a postdoctoral fellow. During that time, she addressed AHN alterations in the brains of murine models of Alzheimer’s disease and in patients with this condition. Since 2017, she holds a tenure-track position at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid under the prestigious Spanish “Ramón y Cajal” Program. The focus of her laboratory at the CBMSO is the basic biology of newborn granule neurons and the neuroprotective potential of AHN for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.