{"id":2137,"date":"2018-12-05T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuromuscularbcn.org\/quienes_somos\/rodrigo-alvarez-velasco\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:28:21","slug":"rodrigo-alvarez-velasco","status":"publish","type":"quienes_somos","link":"https:\/\/www.neuromuscularbcn.org\/en\/quienes_somos\/rodrigo-alvarez-velasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez Velasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez Velasco holds a degree in Medicine from the Autonoma University of Madrid (2010). He completed his Neurology residency at the Ram\u00f3n y Cajal Hospital in Madrid (2011-2015). He worked afterwards as a Neurology specialist at Ram\u00f3n y Cajal Hospital (2016-2017) and then in the Neuromuscular Unit of Bellvitge Hospital as a fellow in a research project on mitochondrial myopathies funded by the Carlos III Health Institute (2018).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2018, he works as a fellow in Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital. He performs his doctoral thesis on the identification of biomarkers in myasthenia gravis. He has recently been awarded with a R\u00edo Hortega contract from the Carlos III Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Academic training:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor of Medicine (Aut\u00f3noma University of Madrid) 2010<\/li>\n<li>Specialist in Neurology (Ram\u00f3n y Cajal Hospital) 2011-2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identification of new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in myasthenia gravis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grants and awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R\u00edo Hortega research grant (Carlos III Health Institute) 2019-2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2138,"menu_order":3120,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"subequipo":[203],"class_list":["post-2137","quienes_somos","type-quienes_somos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subequipo-antiguos-miembros"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez Velasco - 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