Raquel Sanchez-Varo graduated in Biology (2002) and Biochemistry (2004) at the University of Sevilla. PhD by the University of Malaga in 2011, her doctoral thesis dealt with synaptic pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) transgenic mouse models, funded by the Ministry of Science and Education (FPU grant). This thesis and the associated publication received several awards (Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis from Pharmaceutical College 2010/2011; Best doctoral Thesis from the Faculty of Sciences 2012/2013; Best research work 2012 by the General Foundation of Malaga University (FGUMA)). During her scientific career, she has focused on histopathological studies of transgenic mouse models of amyloidogenesis and tauopathy analyzing synaptic damage, neuroinflammation and neuronal death. She has 25 publications in journals with anonymous peer-review process, most of them indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. She has shared her results through more than 100 contributions to scientific congresses (national and international). She has participated in more than 30 research and contract projects. Dr. Sanchez-Varo holds a professor position at the Faculty of Medicine, and she has mentored 4 master thesis, one doctoral thesis and currently another one under development.