Eduardo Fernández

Eduardo Fernández
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), Elche
Principal Investigator

Mapping the pathogenesis of vascular malformations.

• Pau Gorostiza (PL)
  Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC), Barcelona

• Amadeu Llebaria Soldevila
  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid

• Jordi Manel Monés Carilla
  Barcelona Macula Foundation Research (BMF), Barcelona

• Pedro de la Villa Polo
  Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

Professor of Cellular Biology and Director of the Bioengineering Institute of the University Miguel Hernández. He received a M.D. degree from the University of Alicante and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience with honors. He has been visiting professor at the University of Utah (USA), University of Oldenburg (Germany), Beth Israel Medical Deaconess Center (USA) and University of Vienna (Austria). His main interest is to develop innovative solutions to the problems raised by interfacing the human nervous system. On this basis, he aims to develop a two-way direct communication with neurons and ensembles of neurons which could be applied to enhance the life of people that are affected by visual impairments or to treat several neurodegenerative diseases more specifically and effectively. He is actively working on the development of neuroprostheses and brain-machine interfaces. In the latest years, Dr. Eduardo Fernández has been coordinating several international projects to demonstrate the feasibility of a neuroprosthesis, interfaced with the occipital cortex, as a means through which a limited but useful sense of vision could be restored to profoundly blind people. (Read full CV).

UNIVERSITAS Miguel Hernández
Avenida de la Universidad, s/n
03202 Elche, Alicante
Tel.: (+34) 96 522 20 01

Email: [email protected]