Ace Alzheimer Center Barcelona
Memory Unit and Research Center
Dr. Marta Marquié is a neurologist specialist in cognitive disorders with a broad clinical and research experience in Spain and the USA. She obtained her MD at the University of Barcelona (2003) and trained as a clinical neurologist at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (2008). In 2010 she joined the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School as a research fellow, working on neuroimaging and neuropathology. In 2015 she obtained the John H. Growdon Clinical Research Fellowship in Dementia at the Memory Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her PhD in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2016, which obtained a "Cum Laude" mention and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Her thesis project focused on the postmortem validation of the novel PET-tau tracer AV-1451 using autordiography in human brain samples. In 2017 she returned to Spain to work as a clinical neurologist and researcher at Ace Alzheimer Center Barcelona. In 2018 she obtained the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action - Individual Fellowship from the Horizon2020 program. In March 2019 she was promoted to Deputy Director of the Clinical Research Program at Ace. Her research interests include novel biomarkers of early stages of Alzheimer´s disease and neuropathology.