Mario Ezquerra,  I received my undergraduate degree in biology in 1994 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Then I received my PhD in biology from the Central University of Barcelona in 2000, where I studied genetic factors associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Later, i served as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Chartier-Harlin at the Institute Pasteur of Lille (INSERM, France) and in the Fundació Clínic of Barcelona (2002-2007). I also briefly worked as a researcher visitor at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis.Dr. Further, I was a Miguel Servet Researcher in the Carlos III Health Institute in Spain and a member of the Centers for Networked Biomedical Research (2007-2017). Since 2017, I am a consolidate researcher in the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS). Along all this time I received or participated in studies from national and international competitive grant programmes. Currently, I perform studies about genomics, biochemistry and biomarkers of neurodegenerative parkinsonisms, in particular, LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease and the prodromal stage of PD before motor symptoms, using cell models or tissues as blood cells, fibroblast,  and induced pluripoten stem cells dereived dopaminergic neurons.