Barcelona, Spain
Ángeles García-Cazorla
Dr Ángeles García-Cazorla is a Paediatric Neurologist at the Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital, in Barcelona. She is an expert in rare neurometabolic and neurogenetic disorders. Dr Cazorla obtained her degree in Medicine from the University of Barcelona. She then completed her clinical and scientific training in Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Neurometabolic Disorders at the Hospital Necker, in Paris, and at the University of Columbia in New York. She is an Associated Professor at the University of Barcelona since 2012 and the director of the International Master of Neurometabolism and Cell Biology for Clinicians, that started on January 2023. She is currently the Head of the Neurometabolic Disorders Unit and the Director of Research and the “Brain Project” at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital. She is a member of the SSIEM Council, the coordinator of the subgroup of neurotransmitters and other small molecules affecting the brain at the MetabERN (European Reference Network of inherited metabolic disorders) and the promoter of the “Brain Metabolism” inter ERN project. Her research interests include neurotransmission and the “metabolic environment of the synapse” in inborn metabolic diseases as well as the development of new therapies for these rare diseases. She has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles in the field of paediatric neurology and neurometabolism and is co-editor of the reference book “Inborn Errors of Metabolism: diagnosis and treatment” from Springer.
Barcelona, Spain
Alejandra Darling
Dr. Alejandra Darling is a Paediatric Neurologist at the Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital, in Barcelona. She takes care of patients with rare neurometabolic and neurogenetic conditions. Dr. Darling obtained her degree in Medicine from the University of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Afterwards completed her clinical training as Pediatric Neurologist in the Institute FLENI (Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia), in Buenos Aires, and then, in the Sant Joan de Déu Children's Hospital, in Barcelona. She completed then her clinical and scientific education, including her doctoral degree, in Sant Joan de Déu Children's Hospital, in the field of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Neurometabolic and Movement Disorders. Her research interests include rare neurologic conditions, including neurometabolic disorders, associated with behavioural, motor and movement disorders. She has published and colaborated with researchers in various peer-reviewed articles in the field of paediatric neurology. She is currently a medical assistant in the Neurometabolic Disorders Unit at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital. She is responsable of the coordination of the Ataxia- Spactic Paraplegia Unit at this site, that is part of the national reference centers in Spain. Member of the European Reference Network for: Rare Neurological Disorders (ERN-RND) and Metabolic Disorders (MetabERN). She is professor at the International Master of Neurometabolism and Cell Biology for Clinicians, directed by Dra. Angels García-Cazorla.
