Tenured scientist · Cajal Neuroscience Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CNC-CSIC), Madrid
Dr. Marta Cortés-Canteli is a tenured scientist at the Cajal Neuroscience Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CNC-CSIC) in Madrid, where she leads research focused on the neurovascular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and brain–body interactions. She also maintains an active scientific collaboration with the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), where she has developed an important line of research on the relationship between cardiovascular risk, subclinical atherosclerosis and brain health.
She holds degrees in Biochemistry and Biology and a PhD in Biochemistry from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Following her initial research training in Spain, she joined The Rockefeller University in New York, where she investigated neurovascular mechanisms involved in Alzheimer’s disease. She subsequently returned to Spain through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at CNIC and later held Miguel Servet research positions at CNIC and the IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz before obtaining her permanent position at CNC-CSIC.
Her research has made important contributions to understanding the relationship between coagulation, vascular dysfunction and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the interaction between cardiovascular disease and brain health during the preclinical stages of disease. Within the PESA program, she has investigated the association between subclinical atherosclerosis, cardiovascular risk and cerebral metabolism in asymptomatic middle-aged individuals and has contributed to the development of the PESA-Brain study.
She leads the Alzheimer’s Disease Neurovascular Research Laboratory (LINEAlz), develops plasma and imaging biomarkers aimed at identifying the procoagulant state associated with Alzheimer’s disease, and has coordinated or participated in multiple competitive national and European research projects. She has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has been an invited speaker at major national and international neuroscience, cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s disease meetings.
