Organizing Committee Member
Roxana O Carare
Professor
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
Biography
Roxana Carare is a medically qualified clinical neuroanatomist who graduated in general medicine in Bucharest Romania in 1996 and completed her PhD in experimental neuropathology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK. She has a rich educational portfolio and leads research into the lymphatic drainage pathways of the brain. She has published more than 50 papers in peer- reviewed journals, 4 book chapters and has been serving as a board member on international organisations and an editorial board member of repute for several journals.
Research Area
The international recognition and unique contributions from the research that Roxana leads have derived from her interdisciplinary research demonstrating (i) the unique pathways by which fluid and soluble waste substances are eliminated from the brain along thin proteins layers (basement membranes) within the walls of cerebral capillaries and arteries; (ii) how this elimination pathway fails with advancing age, genotype, diet and following immunization against amyloid beta representing thus a significant factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease.