Bryan Strange

Professor

Bryan A Strange MRCP MBBS PhD BSc(Hons) is currently a Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He completed the MB-PhD program at University College London (UK) in 2004. His Ph.D., conducted at the Functional Imaging Laboratory, Institute of Neurology, London argued for a functional dissociation between the anterior and posterior portion of the human hippocampus, the structure in the brain critical for memory function. Subsequently, alongside clinical work in general medicine and neurology, he continued to study memory in humans, with particular focus on the effects of emotion on memory formation, He started his own laboratory in 2011, the Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, UPM, and from 2014-2024 was the director of the Department of Neuroimaging, Reina Sofia Foundation Centre for Alzheimer's Research, Madrid, Spain. His laboratory employs a multi-modal approach combining functional brain imaging techniques with patient lesion data, pharmacology, genetics and human intracranial recordings to study human memory functions. In 2014 he published a new model of hippocampal function, alongside the winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine from the same year. In 2018 he was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator grant to characterise human subcortico-cortical neuronal circuit dynamics associated with enhanced episodic memory for salient stimuli. In 2021, he led a successful application for an infrastructure grant from the Spanish science ministry to fund the acquisition of an optically-pumped magnetoencephalography system (OPM-MEG), and he currently leads the UPM Neurotechnology initiative. In the last 5 years, he has made several key discoveries regarding “Superaging”, the ability of some people to reach the age of 80 with the memory abilities of people 30 years younger.