Anna M. Planas

Dr. Anna M. Planas, Ph.D. Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB) - Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) Rossello 161, planta 6 08036-Barcelona, Spain Tel: +34-93 363 83 27 Fax: +34-93 363 83 01 e-mail: anna.planas@iibb.csic.es Brief Biographical Sketch Anna Planas graduated at the University of Barcelona and carried her Ph.D. on cerebral blood flow and metabolism at the MRC-Toxicology Unit in Carshalton (UK) (1984-1987). She did a postdoctoral stage at the SHFJ PET Centre CEA in Orsay (France) (1990-1992). She now leads the Laboratory for Cerebrovascular Research and she is Head of the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at the Institute for Biomedical Research (IIBB) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona, and she is a scientist at the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), where she coordinates the area of Neurosciences. One or her main interest is to underscore the contribution of inflammatory and immune responses to stroke brain damage. Dr Planas served as member of the Board of Directors of International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (ISCBFM), she was the local host of the Brain 2011 meeting of ISCBFM and the meeting of the European Molecular Imaging Society (ESMI) in 2009, and she is member of the editorial board of scientific journals in the field of stroke and neurosciences.