Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Pablo Luengo is a medical student with a strong entrepreneurial experience and a love for research, seeking internships and opportunities in the health sciences to get hands-on experience, especially in the field of brain aging. He also has a long-lasting volunteering commitment with several organisations aiming to end loneliness, fight age-related diseases, and help obtain equal access to healthcare and vital resources such as electricity.
Conducting a two-month retrospective study at Dr. Steven D. Chang’s laboratory, studying the effect of primary tumor type on overall survival in patients from a Stanford Healthcare patient cohort with brain or spine oligometastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
I have started a new position as a research intern in the laboratory of Prof. Teresa Gómez-Isla at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School). For three months, I will be conducting research on the topic of resilience at the synapse level in Alzheimer's disease. I will be investigating the potential involvement of different mediators, including tau enzymes, on why some patients develop clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's or brain-ageing-related changes earlier than others. For my other research project, we demonstrated that there is no correlation between iron distribution in the basal ganglia and off-target binding of the tau biomarker flortaucipir, used in Alzheimer's disease. I will continue my research remotely during the academic year.
Starting from October 2023, I have been selected as a Global Student Council Member representing the Autonomous University of Madrid at CIVIS. CIVIS is a European Civic University formed by the alliance of 11 leading research higher education institutions across Europe. It aims to create a European interuniversity campus where students, academics, researchers and staff can collaborate as freely as within their institution of origin. The Global Student Council is the voice of students across partner universities and aims to ensure their goals are met and respected.
I am currently a student ambassador for the Rise for the World scholarship program, and initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust. I have promoted this scholarship at several events around the world organised by the Rhodes Trust and several partner universities for the Rise for the World program.
Our social enterprise aims to use residues including food waste and plastic residues, to produce electricity using a novel technology known as microbial fuel cells. You can check out our work at: https://sites.google.com/view/livingenergy/home