Rebeca Lapresa, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Molecular Neurobiology (Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics, Spanish National Research Council, Spain). She has a broad background in neuroscience with a special focus on amyloid-beta induced neurodegeneration. Her main research area is unravelling the mechanisms through which amyloid-beta induces neuronal damage and the search for genetic biomarkers with prognosis value in Alzheimer´s disease. She has been working under the guidance of prestigious researchers Angeles Almeida and Juan Pedro Bolaños.