"Parkinson's: a disease with treatments, but no cure"

Salvador Ventura, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the UAB, participates in the CaixaResearch debate, which aims to solve questions related to Parkinson's disease to help better understand this chronic and progressive disorder.

Also participating alongside Salvador Ventura, director of the research group in Protein Folding and Conformational Diseases (PPMC) of the IBB-UAB, will be researchers Miquel Vila, ICREA lecturer and researcher at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and Guillermo Foffani, from the HM CINAC Neurocentre. All three will explain the projects they they are conducting on Parkinson's disease and with fuding from the “la Caixa” Foundation.

The debate will seek to answer questions such as: What are the causes behind the neurodegenerative processes causing the disease? Do some treatments stop cognitive deterioration? What research projects in Spain can help with keys to improving early diagnoses and new preventive treatments, or at least ones that can slow down the progression of the disease and improve the quality of life of patients?

The debate will be streamed live. To be able to view it please fill out a short form at least one hour before the beginning of the event: https://caixaresearch.org/en/caixaresearch-debates-parkinson-treatments