Juan Castellano
La Coruna University, Spain
Biography
Juan Castellano is an authority and leader of opinion in the prescription of exercise for health. He provide education to numerous institutions as Universities andhospitals, wellness centers and other health associations worldwide. He is a pioneer in the formal training of the prescription of exercise for health and Pilatesmethod in physiotherapy in Spain. His programs have been accredited by professional colleges of physiotherapy, universities and by the National Continued Training department of the Ministry of Health. He begun his pre-doctoral program initiating clinical trials on diabetes type II in 2009. His research focused on the exercise and life style for promoting health, specifically the biological mechanisms. Nowadays, actually he is studying how the different type of exercises promote brain health and the effects of resistance and endurance exercise in partial autophagy deficiency in mice. His current project study the mechanisms of the exerciseto promote health: circulating miRNA characterization and validation as epigenetic regulator of molecular response to exercise. (Start date: 01/01/2016; finish date: 31/12/2018)