Constantino Sotelo#

Education:

• Medical studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 1960
• MD program: Doctorate under the direction of Prof. Fernando de Castro at the Cajal Institute. Medical School, Universidad Complutense (Madrid) 1963

Posdoctoral Positions:

• 1963: Histochemical Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris
• 1965-1967: Research Fellow, Department of Anatomy, Harvard Medical School (advisor: Prof. Sanford L. Palay)

Previous positions:

From 1964 to 2003 he was research member of the French CNRS, and since 1979, director of the INSERM Unit 106 (Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Paris). Sotelo is a member of the Academia Europaea, and a foreign correspondent member of the "Real Academia de Ciencias" in Spain.

• 1964: "Attaché de Recherche" CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research). Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris (Prof. J. Taxi)
• 1967: "Chargé de Recherche" CNRS (idem)
• 1973: "Maître de Recherche" CNRS. INSERM Unit 106 (Director, Dr J.E. Gruner)
• 1979: Director of the INSERM Unit 106
• 1981: "Directeur de Recherche" CNRS
• 1991: "Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle" CNRS (DRE)
• 1994-1998: Director of the "Federative Institute of Neuroscience Pitié-Salpêtrière" (Charcot Institute)

Current Position:

Director of the “Catedra de Neurobiologia del Desarrollo Profesora Remedios Caro Almela, Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, San Juan de Alicante (Spain), and Emeritus Investigator at the Institut de la Vision (UMR-968 INSERM) Paris (France).

Research Fields:

• Developmental Neurobiology: genetic and epigenetic factors governing the formation of the cerebellar circuitry. Attractive and repulsive molecules involved in neuronal migration and axonal guidance.
• Neuronal plasticity: neuron-to-neuron interactions in neural grafting.
• Axonal regeneration.