Dr. Manuel Nieto-Diaz has been a full-time researcher at the Molecular Neuroprotection Lab of the Research Unit of the National Hospital for Paraplegics (SESCAM, Spain) since 2008. He graduated in Biology in 1991 and gained a PhD in Paleontology in 1998 (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain). His scientific career cover many fields of biology from paleontology, systematics, evolution, ecology, molecular biology, neuroscience, biomedicine to biostatistics. First, he worked at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (1992-2003) on the ecomorphology of bovids at the Department of Paleobiology and the evolutionary and ecological analysis of Neogene ruminants. Then, in 2003, he began to collaborate with Dr. Nieto-Sampedro at the Cajal Institute to study the spontaneous axonal regeneration in deer antlers. In 2008, he became co-leader of the Molecular Neuroprotection Group focused on the basic and clinical study of regenerative and neuroprotective processes and mechanisms for the treatment of spinal cord injury.