Anna M. Planas

Anna M. Planas graduated at the University of Barcelona and carried her Ph.D. on cerebral blood flow and metabolism at the Medical Research Council, Toxicology Unit in Carshalton (UK) (1984-87) under the  direction of Dr. Vincent Cunningham. She carried out a postdoctoral stage at the Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ) PET Centre of the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) in Orsay (France) (1990-92). She is Researcher Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and leads the Laboratory for Cerebrovascular Research at the Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB) where she is Head of the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics. Dr Planas was member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism for eight years. She was local host for scientific meetings, including the Brain’11 meeting. She participates in Editorial Boards of scientific journals. She has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and her h-index is 82 (Google Scholar). Her current main research interest is to underscore the contribution of inflammation and immunity to cerebrovascular diseases.