Publication overview

Research center

Hospital Carlos III

Madrid, Spain

Hospital Carlos III

About the center

The ALS Unit at Hospital La Paz – Carlos III in Madrid and FUNDELA, the Spanish ALS Research Foundation, are partners in Project MinE and aim to sequence 750 DNA samples. If the project goes well in Spain, this goal could be increased to 1,000 DNA samples in the future.

The ALS Unit at Hospital La Paz-Carlos III, part of the La Paz University Hospitals Complex, is the oldest and largest ALS Unit in Spain. It provides integral care for patients from all over Spain as well as experimental therapies through clinical trials. The Unit works on and collaborates with other European centers in several research projects related to the search for biomarkers, genetic causes, quality of life issues, and measurement of progression. We are convinced that the causes of ALS can only be unraveled through international collaborations, such as Project MinE.

Jesus Mora

Chief Neurologist and Director ALS Unit

Hospital La Paz-Carlos III

Jesus Mora

Chief Neurologist and Director ALS Unit

Following training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Mora created and formed in 1990 in Madrid the first multidisciplinary integrated ALS Care Unit at Hospital Carlos III. He also founded the Spanish ALS Association ADELA and the Research Foundation FUNDELA.  He and his staff have dedicated their efforts to improve the quality of live of Spanish patients after a long and persistent struggle to introduce the concept of high resolution integrated multidisciplinary care, the need of experimental treatments and patients associations support in Spain. This resulted in the official creation of new regional units in 2006. He was the recipient of the 2015 Humanitarian Award of the International ALS/MND Associations.

Teresa Solas

FUNDELA trustee, ex President of the Spanish ALS association, Prof. of Cellular Biology

Universidad Complutense of Madrid

Teresa Solas

FUNDELA trustee, ex President of the Spanish ALS association, Prof. of Cellular Biology

As the daughter of an ALS patient, Prof. Solas is very involved in the ALS community.

In her research she has directed doctoral thesis on various aspects of ALS as well as publications on an experimental model of sporadic ALS.