
Ignacio
Torres Alemán
Principal Investigator
Center: Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience
Research group: Laboratory of Neurobiology of Insulin Peptides
Email: ignacio.torres@achucarro.org
Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the thesis Control de la neurotraducción hipotalámica por los neurotransmisores cerebrales regulación de la somastostatina hipotalámica por las catecolaminas 1982. Supervised by Dr. Aniceto Luis Charro Salgado.
Our lab works on the neurobiology of insulin factors. We established that IGF-I is a potent neurotrophic factor that plays important roles in brain health and disease and that interacts with insulin in an intricate fashion, in part probably involving hybrid insulin/IGF-I receptors. More recently, we are interested on circuits involved in the regulation by insulin peptides of mood, cognition and underlying energy requirements within an intricate neuron-glia cross-talk. Our lab is part of ciberNed, the Spanish Excellence Network of Research on Neurodegenerative Diaseases.