Achucarro appoints its International Scientific Advisory Committee

Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience has appointed its first International Scientific Advisory Committee.

It is composed by ten bright and relevant neuroscientists, from different professional and personal backgrounds, that allow Achucarro to cover most of the relevant scientific fields of the current research programme of the centre, and the geographic areas of the most active global neuroscience community, and in particular, the specific environment of the neuron-glia relationships.

The members of this ISAC are:

• Jesús Ávila, CBM Severo Ochoa (Spain)
• Geoffrey Burnstock, University College London (UK)
• Isabel Fariñas, University of Valencia (Spain)
• Christian Giaume, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Collège de France (France)
• Helmut Kettenmann, Max-Delbrück Centrum (Deutschland)
• Frank Kirchhoff, University Saarland (Deutschland)
• Jose A. Obeso, CIMA (Spain)
• Jorge Oksenberg, UCSF (USA)
• Anna Planas, IDIBAPS (Spain)
• Bruce Ransom, U. Washington (USA)