Cerebrovascular research team

Our team studies cerebrovascular disease physiopathology. Stroke is a devastating disease of sudden and commonly unpredictable onset. About 1.20 million strokes occur each year in the EU, and about 25% of men and 20% of women can expect to suffer a stroke if they live to be 85 years old. Aging is associated to gradual vascular dysfunction that can acquire diverse manifestations like small vessel disease, or multiple microinfarcts and microhemorrhages often associated with common pathologies such as arterial hypertension. Although these events can be clinically silent, accumulating pathology can lead to progressive vascular cognitive decline and dementia. After the onset of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, in 2020 we started a multidisciplinary collaborative study to investigate the genetics of the infection, based on immune response genes.