Jose Alfredo Santiago, MD

Evelyn F. McKnight CrossROADS Scholar
Email: jas1387@med.miami.edu  

 

Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
1120 NW 12th Street, Miami, FL 33136

Dr. Santiago was born in Puerto Rico and completed his undergraduate training in
Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He pursued his
medical sciences education at Touro College of Medicine in New York and earned his
MD from the American University of the Caribbean.

Before joining the University of Miami, Dr. Santiago served as a Research Associate at
the Chicago Medical School, where he identified novel RNA blood-based biomarkers for
Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonian syndromes. His discoveries led to the
founding of NeuroHub Analytics, a company dedicated to high-throughput genomic
analysis, biomarker discovery, and therapeutic target identification for
neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Santiago has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications focused on
neurodegeneration. He is recognized for his work on diagnostic biomarkers for
Parkinson’s disease and for elucidating molecular pathways that link Parkinson’s
disease and diabetes.

He is currently a CrossROADS T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of
Neurology at the University of Miami, under the mentorship of Dr. Ihtsham Ul Haq. His
ongoing research investigates vascular contributions and comorbidities to cognitive
decline in Parkinson’s disease.