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2026

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D-Index
105
Citations
39230
World Ranking
652
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Spain Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Isidro Ferrer is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research is situated at the intersection of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach across 180, 141, and 91 publications respectively in these main fields of study. Ferrer's work extends into several key subfields including molecular biology, physiology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's primary research topics cover a range of neurodegenerative and neurological conditions, with a significant emphasis on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, which accounts for 140 publications. Other prominent topics in their work include prion diseases and protein misfolding, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, mitochondrial function and pathology, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neurological diseases and metabolism, as well as neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Recent publications illustrate Ferrer's focus on neurodegenerative disease biomarkers and mechanisms. Selected papers include:

  • "Cerebrospinal fluid lipocalin 2 as a novel biomarker for the differential diagnosis of vascular dementia" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "SFPQ and Tau: critical factors contributing to rapid progression of Alzheimer's disease" (2020, Acta Neuropathologica)
  • "Serpin Signatures in Prion and Alzheimer's Diseases" (2022, Molecular Neurobiology)
  • "Motor neuron preservation and decrease of in vivo TDP-43 phosphorylation by protein CK-1δ kinase inhibitor treatment" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "CpG and non-CpG Presenilin1 methylation pattern in course of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration is associated with gene expression in human and murine brain" (2020, Epigenetics)

The scientist has also contributed to book literature, including the publication titled "Frankenstein o el Prometeo moderno" in 2022 by Editorial Universidad de Cantabria eBooks.

Frequent publication venues for Ferrer include:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Throughout their career, Ferrer has worked alongside several recurring collaborators, such as Pol Andrés-Benito, José Antonio del Río, Reinald Pamplona, Manuel Portero-Otín, and Margarita Carmona.

Recognition of Ferrer's contributions to the scientific community includes being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Common variants at 7p21 are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions

    Vivianna M. Van Deerlin;Patrick M A Sleiman;Maria Martinez-Lage;Maria Martinez-Lage;Alice Chen-Plotkin

  • Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy Markers in Parkinson Disease Brains

    Lydia Alvarez-Erviti;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz;J. Mark Cooper;Cristina Caballero

  • Signaling of cell death and cell survival following focal cerebral ischemia: Life and death struggle in the penumbra

    Isidro Ferrer;Anna María Planas

  • Staging of Neurofibrillary Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease: A Study of the BrainNet Europe Consortium

    Irina Alafuzoff;Thomas Arzberger;Safa Al-Sarraj;Istvan Bodi

  • Aging-related tau astrogliopathy (ARTAG): harmonized evaluation strategy

    Gabor G. Kovacs;Isidro Ferrer;Lea T. Grinberg;Lea T. Grinberg;Irina Alafuzoff

  • BDNF and full-length and truncated TrkB expression in Alzheimer disease. Implications in therapeutic strategies.

    Isidro Ferrer;Conxita Marín;Ma Jesús Rey;Teresa Ribalta

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Huntington disease.

    I Ferrer;E Goutan;C Marı́n;M.J Rey

  • Abeta species removal after abeta42 immunization.

    James A. R. Nicoll;James A. R. Nicoll;Edward Barton;Delphine Boche;James William Neal

  • Current advances on different kinases involved in tau phosphorylation, and implications in Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies

    Isidro Ferrer;Teresa Gómez-Isla;Berta Puig;M. Freixes

  • Staging/typing of Lewy body related α-synuclein pathology: a study of the BrainNet Europe Consortium

    Irina Alafuzoff;Paul G. Ince;Thomas Arzberger;Safa Al-Sarraj

  • Naturally occurring cell death in the cerebral cortex of the rat and removal of dead cells by transitory phagocytes

    I. Ferrer;E. Bernet;E. Soriano;T. Del Rio

  • Patient-Specific iPSC-Derived Astrocytes Contribute to Non-Cell-Autonomous Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease

    Angelique di Domenico;Angelique di Domenico;Giulia Carola;Giulia Carola;Carles Calatayud;Carles Calatayud;Meritxell Pons-Espinal;Meritxell Pons-Espinal

  • Unexpected expression of α- and β-globin in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons and glial cells

    Marta Biagioli;Milena Pinto;Daniela Cesselli;Marta Zaninello

  • Phosphorylated map kinase (ERK1, ERK2) expression is associated with early tau deposition in neurones and glial cells, but not with increased nuclear DNA vulnerability and cell death, in Alzheimer disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration.

    I. Ferrer;R. Blanco;M. Carmona;R. Ribera

  • Neuronal induction of the immunoproteasome in Huntington's disease

    Miguel Díaz-Hernández;Félix Hernández;Ester Martín-Aparicio;Pilar Gómez-Ramos

  • Huntington's disease is a four-repeat tauopathy with tau nuclear rods

    Marta Fernández-Nogales;Jorge Rubén Cabrera;María Santos-Galindo;Jeroen J. M. Hoozemans

  • Age-related Changes in the Brain of the Dog

    D. Borràs;I. Ferrer;M. Pumarola

  • Phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK/ERK-P), protein kinase of 38 kDa (p38-P), stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK/JNK-P), and calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaM kinase II) are differentially expressed in tau deposits in neurons and glial cells in tauopathies.

    I Ferrer;R Blanco;M Carmona;B Puig

  • Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease: dendritic spine counts in the hippocampus.

    I. Ferrer;F. Gullotta

  • Immunological characterization of a neuronal antibody (anti-Tr) associated with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and Hodgkin's disease

    F Graus;J Dalmau;F Valldeoriola;I Ferrer

  • Glycogen synthase kinase-3 is associated with neuronal and glial hyperphosphorylated tau deposits in Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration.

    I. Ferrer;M. Barrachina;B. Puig

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduardo Soriano
Eduardo Soriano University of Barcelona
Anna M. Planas
Anna M. Planas Spanish National Research Council
Piero Parchi
Piero Parchi University of Bologna
Nenad Bogdanovic
Nenad Bogdanovic Karolinska Institute
Andrew J. King
Andrew J. King University of Leicester
Edna Grünblatt
Edna Grünblatt University of Zurich
Helmut Heinsen
Helmut Heinsen University of Würzburg
Stefano Gustincich
Stefano Gustincich Italian Institute of Technology
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney

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