Bio

Maria Trinidad Herrero is Full Professor of Human Anatomy at the School of Medicine of the University of Murcia. She is Director of the Institute for Aging Research of Murcia. She is in charge of the Frailty group of the European Innovation Coalition for Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) in Murcia region. She is the director of the PhD Program on Aging and Frailty. She is the director of the Chair on Health Communication (University of Murcia and ASISA Foundation) organizing courses and symposia. She is the director of the Master on Movement Disorders in Spanish (on-line Master for Spanish-speaking Neurologists since 2011) with students from different countries. She is the Principal investigator of the Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience group (NiCE) belonging to the Institute of Biomedicine of Murcia (IMIB).  Her research is focused on cerebral aging and neurodegenerative diseases with special interest in neuroinflammmation, cognitive impairment and effect’s evaluation of different strategies (as natural smartfoods and/or anti-inflammatory agents) in cognitive and  motional improvement. She is also deeply interested on Gender, Health & Aging (GENDER ERA-NET research project: “Going Forward”) from a syndemic point of view of chronic and non-transmisible diseases. She has published more than 150 scientific papers with an h-Index of 45 (47 with own citations). She has been the Principal investigator of more of 25 scientific regional, national and european projects (both basic and clinical research).  She has 5 sexennium and 6 quinquennium. She is reviewer of different international journals and of different scientific committes of several countries (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Malta, Mexico…). She is Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Murcia since 2006. She is the President since 2018. She is member of Academic and Scientific Societies related to Neuroscience, and member of Medical Academies in LatinAmerica. She works on cooperation to development, organizing events on equity and international humanitarian rights. She is founder and the President of Women in Science of the Region of Murcia (Lyceum of Science).

Project

During this short stay at Faber, I will work on the topic of Gender and Health related to aging and I'll analyze this question from a syndemic point of view. In fact, I guess that it would be a great opportunity as I imagine that the other residents probably will be specialists in other fields different to mine, and this it is, in fact, a unique occasion in order to share knowledge, experience and ideas that I am sure it would be very productive and even it could be a chance for opening new fruitful collaborations.