CARLOS P. FITZSIMONS

Carlos Fitzsimons studied Biochemistry and Pharmacy and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After a postdoctoral experience at the Leiden-Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (now Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research), aimed to study the cognitive consequences of gene knockdown using RNA interference, Carlos joined the Neuroscience Program at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Amsterdam as Assistant professor in 2010, within the group Structural and Functional Plasticity of the Nervous System. He became a Faculty Staff member in 2013.
Since then the Fitzsimons Lab has been financed by the Innovational Research Incentive Scheme VIDI from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the International Foundation for Alzheimer's Research (ISAO) and Alzheimer Nederland and by ERA-NET NEURON. The Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research (NEURON) is a European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) co-funded by the European Commission that supports basic, clinical and translational research in the field of disease-related neuroscience. As a co-fund, this ERA-NET NEURON project receives local financial support from NWO/ZonMw, Hersenstichting Nederland, the National Initiative Brain and Cognition and is part of the Topsector Life Sciences & Health program.

Additionally, our work is funded by the EU's ERA4Health program. The EU-funded ERA4Health Partnership brings together 32 entities and 27 funding organisations from 21 countries, in our case The Netherlands Research council NWO with the common goal of fostering high-impact translational research for addressing public health needs. Detail of our project can be found here.