Rosario Osta

Prof. Rosario Osta, PhD in Genetics at the University of Zaragoza (1996). She is a Research Staff member (Full Professor) of Zaragoza University (UNIZAR). She is the Head of the “LAGENBIO: Teragen and Regeneragen” of the Institute of Aragón (IIS) in Zaragoza, Spain and it is part of the CIBERNED. She has an international reputation of more than 16 years on the field of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. She is co-founder of neuroscience network in IIS Aragon. She is focused in the search of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers in patients of ALS. Also, she has focused on innovate therapy in ALS murine model and the results were patented and licensed to industry. She has been a keynote speaker in numerous meetings and national and international scientific conferences. She is responsible for more than 14 large projects and industry contracts. Prof. Osta has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has 8 patents. Total number of citations in ISI Web-of-Knowledge: 2052 and 2.955 in Google Scholar. Her h- Index is: 26 (WoS), 33 (GSch.), i10=64