Lab members
Miquel Vila
Principal InvestigatorICREA Research Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University (New York, USA)
PhD in Neuroscience, University of Paris VI (1998)
MD, University of Barcelona (1993)
mvila@ir.vhebron.net
Miquel Vila received his M.D. from the University of Barcelona Medical School (Barcelona, Spain) in 1993. He then moved to the laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Therapeutics, INSERM U289 (Prof. Yves Agid) at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (France), where he obtained his Master degree (D.E.A.) and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie), under the supervision of Dr. Etienne Hirsch. His Ph.D. work was devoted to the study of the functional consequences of dopaminergic neurodegeneration on the functioning of the basal ganglia. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory of Dr. Serge Przedborski at the Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Division, at Columbia University (New York, USA), focusing on the molecular mechanisms of neuronal death in Parkinson's disease. To continue his work, he obtained in 2001 a position as an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University. In December 2005, he moved back to Barcelona as an ICREA Research Professor to develop a new research lab on Neurodegeneration at the Research Institute of the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, thanks to the support of the European Commission’s Marie Curie Excellence Grants program. In addition, he holds a position at Columbia University as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology.
