Dr. Mar Pacheco-Herrero is a Researcher, Professor, and Coordinator of the Research Unit of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Dominican Republic. She is also the Founder of the first research group to study neurodegenerative diseases in the Dominican Republic and the Neuroscience Research Laboratory Director. She is an international advisor to the National Dementia BioBank, Mexico. Dr. Pacheco’s research group focuses on the study of the molecular processing of proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases, mainly Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and the search for risk factors and specific biomarkers.