Dear reader*,
Our personal and professional history is closely linked to our brain, a dynamic, adaptable, information-seeking system (David Eagleman, Livewired) shaped by our genetic material and all those stimuli around us.
I would, then, like to introduce the history of my brain that takes the name of César. My brain was biologically conceived and was born in Guadalajara, México. He grew up receiving the stimuli of the city of Tlaquepaque and the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, surrounded by the creativity of the local artisans and listening to the music of mariachi.
Having digested information from the basic education system, he decided to pursue a degree in Medicine at the University of Guadalajara, where he marvelled at the wonders of medicine and neuroscience. How is it possible that the brain can study itself? – he wondered. Afterwards, he decided to enrol in a clinical Neurology program at the Mexican Institute of Social Security Medical and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, seeking to learn about the suffering of fellow brains during times of disease.
While engaging with fellow brains as a clinical neurologist in Guadalajara, his curiosity grew. He then decided to pursue a PhD at University College London. There, he witnessed the incredible world of stem cells and how they can be used as a potential remedy to cure or ameliorate brain diseases. At the same time, he was adapting and absorbing the external life of the cosmopolitan city of London. After the PhD, he did a research clinical fellowship in Neuroimmunology at Queen Mary University of London and the Royal London Hospital. He was fascinated by the immune system and its interaction with the nervous system.
As he is always driven by scientific and clinical curiosity in biomedicine and clinical neurology, my brain and I decided to move to the city of Berlin for a postdoctorate translational project involving early MS patients and B cells. Currently, we are located in Basel, Switzerland. Here, we worked as a senior Clinical Researcher at the Basel University Hospital to provide high-quality reviews on clinical EDSS assessment data consistency on different eCOA platforms in multi-centre or single-centre clinical trials for MS and other neuroimmunological disorders, as well as standardisation and digitised clinical rating scales for recording and quantifying neurological symptoms, including algorithm-based feedback systems. Our recent interest is in applying inter- and transdisciplinary anthro-scientific methods, tools and solutions to brain sciences using complex adaptive systems (CAS) and other scientific theories.
Through this journey, my brain and I have become a creative clinical neurologist, translational neuroscientist, technologist, and an entrepreneur. We have great passion and plenty of experience and knowledge in neurology, translational neuroscience, neuroimmunology, stem cell biology, and health technology. We specialise in clinical neurology, clinical research, translational research, science communication (in English and Spanish), and health information technology. Having worked and lived in different countries, we enjoy the challenge of working in multicultural, diverse, and complex environments. We like to teach and mentor other people’s, clinical fellows’ and postgraduate students’ brains.
We love wandering, reading, and doing creative activities.
Dear reader and reader’s brain, thanks for stopping by! Please, reach out and tell us more about your journey here.
*Modified from the source first published here: https://archivosdeneurociencias.org/index.php/ADN/article/view/418