- Claudio Soto
Claudio A. Soto is a professor of Neurology at the
University of Texas Medical Branch . Soto’s group has been studying the molecular basis of neurodegenerative disorders, mainly focusing inAlzheimer’s disease and intransmissible spongiform encephalopathy .Currently Dr Soto is the Director of the George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor on the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience & Cell Biology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Soto holds the Green Distinguished University Chair in Neuroscience. He is also the Founder, Vice-President and Chief Scientific Officer of AMPRION Inc. He received his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Chile in 1993 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Chile and at the New York University School of Medicine, where he became an assistant professor of research in 1995. Between 1999-2003, Dr Soto was Senior Scientist, Chairman of the Department of Molecular Neuropathology and Senior Executive Scientific Advisor for Neurobiology at Serono International in Switzerland. For the past 15 years, he and his colleagues have engaged in research into the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases associated to the misfolding and brain accumulation of proteins, particularly focusing in Alzheimer’s and prion-related disorders. His work has led to the development of novel strategies for treatment and diagnosis of these diseases. He has published more than 100 peer review scientific publications and contributed to more than 15 books, including one written entirely by Dr. Soto. Many of his studies have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals (including Cell, Nature, Science, Nature medicine, EMBO Journal, etc) and several of them have produced a large impact in the scientific community.External links
* http://www.utmb.edu/neuro/faculty_profiles/ClaudioSoto.htm
* [http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/7925/7925notw4.html PCR for Prions]
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