Dr. Marta Marquié is a neurologist specializing in cognitive impairment with a wide clinical trajectory and a researcher both in Spain and in the United States. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 2003 and completed the Neurology residency at the Hospital de Sant Pau.

From 2010 to 2017 she worked as a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in Boston, on projects on neuroimaging with PET-amyloid and PET-tau and their neuropathological correlates.

There she also obtained a medical license from the state of Massachusetts, which allowed her to obtain the John H. Growdon clinical-research scholarship in dementia in 2015 and practice medicine in the United States.

In 2016 she obtained a PhD in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and her thesis obtained a mention “Cum Laude” and the Extraordinary Prize. Her thesis project focused on the validation of the new PET-tau AV1451 compound using self-adiography techniques in human brain samples.

In 2017 she returned to Barcelona to work as a neurologist and researcher at Ace Alzheimer Center Barcelona, where she currently directs the Clinical Research and Medical Psychology program.

In 2018 she was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program to lead a project on retinal biomarkers in people with Alzheimer’s, and in 2020 she obtained an AES project from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities as principal investigator on the vascular pathology of the retina and its relationship with cognitive impairment.

She has participated in multiple research studies both in Spain and the United States and coordinates several research projects (FACEHBI, NORFACE, AMYPAD).

She has published more than 72 research articles in high impact international scientific journals.

She is member of the Catalan, Spanish and American Society of Neurology, the Marie Curie Association of alumni and the Association of alumni of International Exchange.

For more information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-0950