**Meet the editor**

Alina González-Quevedo graduated from medical school at the University of Havana in 1972 with specialization in Clinical Biochemistry. Since 1977, she is a fulltime professor of Biochemistry at the Medical University of Havana and senior researcher at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, where she occupied the positions of Head of the Department of Neurochemistry

(1977–2009) and Assistant Director of Research (1995–2010). Her doctoral thesis engaged in the pathophysiological mechanisms of Cuban epidemic optic neuropathy in collaboration with the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (1997–2002). She has also worked in other research areas such as brain barrier systems, demyelinating diseases, blood and CSF biomarkers for brain damage in essential hypertension and stroke and has published more than 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.
