Neurology 2026

Juan Segura-Aguilar earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stockholm University in 1989. He worked at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden, and in 1998 began working at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. He has been a Full Professor since 2001. His research has focused on the molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease. He is currently proposing a new model for the development of idiopathic Parkinson's disease, the "Single-neuron degeneration model." He has 145 publications in PubMed and in 2022 was ranked 115,825 out of 9,071,000 scientists.