The Pascual Maragall Foundation funds Alzheimer’s disease research at the UMH Elche Institute of Neurosciences.

Pascual Maragall Foundation received a scholarship from a scientist Jose Vicente Sanchez belonging Neuroscience Institute belonging Miguel Hernandez University (UMH) from Elchewhich is a mixed center of the Supreme Council for Scientific Research.

The goal of the study is to identify new therapeutic strategies to improve resistance to the disease. Alzheimer’s disease. In this sense, it should be noted that resistant patients are those who, although experiencing Alzheimer’s pathology, do not develop symptoms of the disease. Thus, improving sleep quality may increase resistance to Alzheimer’s disease, but the mechanisms are still unknown.

The Pascual Maragall Foundation grant will allow scientists at the Institute of Neurosciences to “develop large-scale studies to not only determine the impact of sleep quality on resistance to Alzheimer’s disease, but also to understand the mechanisms through which it does so.” , which will allow us to find potential therapeutic targets to increase patient resistance,” said a researcher from the Institute of Neuroscience, who will lead the project.

In its turn, Christina Maragall, President of the aforementioned foundation, emphasized that “we are very pleased to provide one of the research grants of the Pascual Maragall Research Program to such a promising project as that of José Vicente Sánchez.” In addition, he emphasized that “only through research will we achieve a future without Alzheimer’s disease.”

Cristina Maragall visited the Institute of Neurosciences UMH Elche last Tuesday on the occasion of the reception scholarship awarded to scientist José Vicente Sánchez.