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Alberto Serrano-Pozo, M.D., Ph.D.

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education and training
University of Málaga School of Medicine, Málaga (Spain)MD06/2001Medicine
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville (Spain)06/2008Behavioral Neurology fellowship
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville (Spain)Neurologist06/2006Neurology Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital & University of Seville, Boston and Seville (Spain)PhD04/2013Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease
University of Iowa, Iowa cityNeurologist06/2017Neurology Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston06/2018Fellowship in Clinical Dementias
awards and honors
2016 - 2017
Best Teacher Senior Resident
2016 - 2017
Chief Resident
2015 - 2016
Best Teacher Senior Resident
2012 - 2013
Extraordinary Doctorate Thesis in Health Sciences Award
2010 - 2010
Best Original Article of the Year on Dementias by a Spanish Neurologist
1995 - 2001
"Best In Class" (XXV Class)

Overview
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Dr. Serrano-Pozo is originally from Málaga, Spain. He received his MD in 2001 at the University of Málaga School of Medicine and completed his neurology residency in 2006 at the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío in Seville (Spain), followed by a 2-year research and behavioral neurology fellowship at the same institution. He first joined Dr. Bradley Hyman’s lab at MGH as a research fellow in 2008, where he investigated clinic-pathological correlations of Alzheimer’s dementia using brain specimens from the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center brain bank, as well as the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) database. His publications during this period resulted in Dr. Serrano-Pozo obtaining his PhD at the University of Seville in 2013. Next, he pursued a US neurology residency, which he completed at the University of Iowa in 2017 as Chief Resident, before returning to MGH.

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  1. K08AG064039 (SERRANO-POZO, ALBERTO) Jul 15, 2019 - Apr 30, 2024
    NIH
    Astrocyte Reaction in Alzheimer's Disease
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. NACC New Investigator Award (SERRANO-POZO, ALBERTO) Jul 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020
    NIA
    A brain atlas of astrocytes and microglia in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. AACF-17-524184 (SERRANO-POZO, ALBERTO) Nov 1, 2017 - Oct 30, 2020
    Alzheimer's Association
    Transcriptomic Changes of Astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. R25NS065743 (Bradley T. Hyman) Jul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2019
    NINDS
    Deciphering the Astrocyte Reaction in Alzheimer's Disease
    Role: Mentee
  5. Research Fellowship (Bradley T. Hyman) Jan 1, 2010 - Dec 31, 2011
    Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero, Madrid (Spain)
    A Neuropathological Approach to the Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease
    Role: Mentee

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