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Roxana Carare qualified in Medicine in Bucharest in 1994. During her basic clinical training, she became fascinated by anatomy and completed her PhD in neuropathology in 2006, in the University of Southampton, UK. The main international recognition for Roxana Carare has come from the interdisciplinary research she leads, relevant to the causes and new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, with over 165 peer reviewed publications in the field. She led the discovery of the intramural periarterial drainage system for proteins and fluid from the brain that fails in ageing leading to Alzheimer’s disease and her group now focusses on harnessing this system for efficient therapies and early biomarkers for age related neurodegenerative diseases. Roxana is a member of the UK Medical Research Council Dementia Platform UK Vascular Experimental Medicine committee and the UK government advisory committee for the effects of pollution on the brain, has served as the only European member of the American NIH strategy committee for funding in dementia. Roxana has won prestigious awards, including a Dementia Research Leader award from Alzheimer’s Society UK. Roxana has served as Co-Chair for The International Alliance of Women Alzheimer’s Researchers in Alzheimer’s Association, she is Chair of the Vascular Professional Interest Area of Alzheimer’s Association, co-led the Scientific Committee for Vas-Cog, Secretary of the British Neuropathological Society, member of the scientific committee of the Rainwater Foundation, serves as an expert for several international research funding boards. Roxana is a Visiting Professor in the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology Targu Mures- Romania where she has co-founded the British-Romanian Academic Institute of Neuroscience and most recently was successful in setting up the Romanian National Centre of Excellence of Neuroscience NeuRoX.

Martin U. Schuhmann, MD PhD focuses his clinical work on Pediatric Neurosurgery, Neurofibromatosis, and peripheral nerve pathologies, also in adult patients. Since 2007 he acts a Head of Pediatric Neurosurgery at University Hospital of Tübingen. In addition, he directs the Adult Hydrocephalus Program, the Peripheral Nerve Surgery Program and serves as Speaker of the Centre of Neurofibromatosis. He is a member of the German Pediatric Neurosurgery Reference Panel of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Co-Chair of the Neurosurgery group within the SIOPe Brain Tumor Group. He is active member of ISPN and ESPN. He has published and contributed to over 200 peer-reviewed research articles.