Dani Ruiz Gabarre
Research Fellow
- Centre for Regenerative Medicine (IRR North)
- Institute for Regeneration and Repair
- UK Dementia Research Institute
Contact details
- Email: druizga@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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61/2 Logie green road
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH7 4HB
Availability
Usually available Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM
Background
Dani (He/him) graduated from his Pharmacy BSc and MSc in July 2017, after an Erasmus+ internship at University College London with Prof. Oscar Della Pasqua.
He then pursued a Neuroscience MSc and subsequent Neuroscience PhD at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, where he obtained his PhD summa cum laude in February 2023.
A firm believer on our need to acknowledge and avoid bias in science, Dani is part of PRISMA, a Spanish organisation that promotes visibility of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and fights against discrimination and bias against them.
Research summary
Dani is mostly interested in dementia as a heterogeneous entity, specially focusing on the molecular level; although he is more broadly interested in all-things-neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, biological sex research and linguistics.
During his PhD, he researched into molecular mechanisms of tau protein in the context of Alzheimer's disease, with a special interest in new tau isoforms generated by alternative splicing.
Now, he is focused on Small Vessel Disease (SVD) as one of the main causes of vascular dementia and a contributor to other types of dementia.