Prof Roberto Grau
Title: Probiotic Bacillus subtilis prevents neurodegeneration and behavioural impairment in the Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases model Caenorhabditis elegans
Biography
Roberto Grau completed his Biochemistry PhD from Rosario National University in Argentina and obtained his postdoctoral degree from The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Experimental Medicine at San Diego, California, USA. He is a Pew Latin American Fellow (San Francisco, USA), a Fulbright International Scholar (Washington DC, USA) and the director of the Molecular Microbiology and Environmental Science Laboratory of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Roberto obtained many national and international awards, published over 30 papers in standing journals, trained more than seventy professionals in science and founded and/or catalyzed the creation of half a dozen biotechnological companies.
