Mara Dierssen - Curriculum Vitae#

Full CV (February 2020)

Education

• 1985 Degree in Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  
• 1986 Master Thesis in Neuropharmacology University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  
• 1989 PhD in Neurosciences, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  
• 1991 Diplomate in Radioactive Installation Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
  
• 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

• 2018 Distinguished member of the College of Medicine
• 2018 President Trisomy 21 Research Society 2016
• 2017 Distinguished Alumni University of Cantabria
• 2016 Chair Program Committee Trisomy 21 Research Society 2016
• 2013 - 2016 Founder member and Secretary General of the Trisomy 21 Research Society (www.t21rs.org)
• 2013 - 2015 President of the Spanish Neuroscience Society
• 2014 Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2014 Chair of the Woman in Neuroscience Committee of the Society for Neuroscience
• 2014 Member of the “Woman in Science” Commission of the Catalan Government
• 2013 Member of the Professional Development Committee of the Society for Neuroscience
• 2013 Member of the Rigor in Science Committee of the Society for Neuroscience
• 2010 - 2012 Executive Committee Member of FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)
• 2010 Member of EDAB (European DANA Allianze for the Brain)
• 2010 Committee Member of COSCE (Confederation of Spanish Science Societies)
• 2008 Member of Barcelona Science Culture Council
• 2007 - 2009 Vice-president Spanish Society of Neuroscience (From 2005, member of Executive Committee)
• 2005 Member of Barcelona Culture Institute Board of Directors
• 2003 - 2006 President International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society
• 2002 Member of the Council of FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)
• Member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Federation of Spanish Science Societies, International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, European Dana Alliance for the Brain, European Brain and Behaviour Society, Confederation of Spanish Science Societies, Society for Neuroscience

Editorial activity
Editorial Board of Acta Neuropathologica; Amino Acids, Senior Editor Down Syndrome Research and Practice, Associate Editor BMC Neuroscience;Genes, Brain and Behaviour, Reviewer Editor Frontiers in Neurosciences, Frontiers Genetics of Complex Traits. Reviewer “ad hoc” for more than 25 international journals (Nature Neuroscience, Science, Journal of Neuroscience, PNAS, Human Molecular Genetics, Cerebral Cortex, Brain etc.)

Technology Transfer

• Patent: Transgenic mice and overexpression model of gene NTRK3 (TRKC) for the study and monitoring of anxiety, depression and related psychiatric diseases. WO 01/06848 A1 and P9901674
  
• Patent application: Compounds for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, P201130033
  
• Exploitation License “Mouse/Rat immobilization system”. PANLAB/Harvard: 6% royalties (2008-2018)
  
• Exploitation License “Electrified radial arm maze”. PANLAB/Harvard: 6% royalties (2008-2018)
• SAB member
  
• Jerome Lejeune Foundation, Paris (France)
  
• 2WAYS, EU-Fundació Catalana per la Recerca, Barcelona (Spain)
  
• Fundació Catalana Síndrome de Down Barcelona (Spain)
  
• Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras, Madrid (Spain)
  
• European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA), Strasbourg (France)
  
• Fundación Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona (Spain)
  
• Barcelona Science Council Barcelona (Spain)