About me

I completed my training as a neurologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (2000) and my PhD degree on Biopathology in Medicine at the University of Barcelona (UB) (2003). After this, I obtained a Rio Hortega fellowship (ISCIII, Spanish Ministry of Health) in Behavioural neurology at IDIBAPS. I accomplished a short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Memory and Aging Center- University of California San Francisco, directed by Dr. Bruce Miller (2006). Back in Barcelona, I became the Group Leader of the Alzheimer’s Disease and other Cognitive Disorders group at the IDIBAPS and Associate professor at the UB (2018). Currently, I am the Head of the Neurology Service at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Featured publications

Featured Projects

  • Genetic dementias (genetic Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and prion diseases):longitudinal changes and expression and epigenetic differences with sporadic cases.

    Principal investigator: Raquel Sanchez del Valle Díaz
    Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
    Code: PI20/ 00448
    Duration: 01/01/2021 - 30/06/2025
  • Estudio de biomarcadores y desarrollo de nuevas estrategias terapéuticas en una cohorte multicéntrica de Demencia Frontotemporal.

    Principal investigator: Raquel Sanchez del Valle Díaz
    Funder: Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya ; 4.12.01 - Malaltia d'Alzheimer i altres trastorns cognitius. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Otros)
    Code: SLT002/16/00408
    Duration: 27/03/2017 - 31/12/2023
  • Study of genetic frontotemporal dementia in preclinical and early stages of the disease: cognitive performance, structural and functional neuroimaging and biochemical markers.

    Principal investigator: Raquel Sanchez del Valle Díaz
    Funder: Fundació La Marató de TV3
    Code: TV3-20143810
    Duration: 15/05/2015 - 15/11/2021
  • Phase II/III Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Multi-Center Study of 2 Potential Disease Modifying Therapies in Individuals at Risk for and With Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Disease

    Principal investigator: Raquel Sanchez del Valle Díaz
    Funder: National Institute on Aging (NIH)
    Duration: 14/07/2014
  • Alzheimer’s Disease Prediction Service (ADPS): digital biomarker for Real-World Evidence (RWE) in AD

    Principal investigator: Raquel Sanchez del Valle Díaz
    Funder: EIT Health
    Code: EIT Health 18066/2017
    Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2018