# People and institutions — NeuralCIM / NeuroEPO

## Core science / Cuban institutions

- **Dr. Teresita Rodríguez Obaya** — Cuban scientist associated in the public source trail with NeuroEPO / NeuralCIM and the personal story behind *Teresita’s Dream*. Belly of the Beast says her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis drove her deeper into the NeuroEPO project; the commercial NeuralCIM site presents her as the pioneering scientist behind the treatment. Treat commercial-site biography as a source to verify, not as an independent academic profile.
- **Center of Molecular Immunology / Centro de Inmunología Molecular (CIM), Havana** — institution identified in the ATHENEA paper and public materials as the developer/manufacturer context for NeuralCIM / NeuroEPO plus. CIM is also known for Cuban cancer immunotherapy work such as CIMAvax-EGF, included only as broader institutional context.
- **ATHENEA investigators** — Saily Sosa, Giosmany Bringas, Nelky Urrutia, Ana Ivis Peñalver, Danay López, Evelio González, Ana Fernández, Zenaida Milagros Hernández, Ariel Viña, Yamile Peña, Juan Felipe Batista, Carmen Valenzuela, Kalet León, Tania Crombet, Teresita Rodríguez, Leslie Pérez and others appear in the PubMed/PMC author trail for the Alzheimer’s RCT.
- **Tania Crombet / Kalet León / Leslie Pérez** — CIM-linked names appearing in the ATHENEA source trail and broader Cuban biotech reporting.

## Medical-access / video-source people

- **Dr. Bill Blanchet** — Colorado-based physician appearing in the Belly of the Beast video, describing U.S. patients traveling to Cuba and reporting clinic-observed changes. His observations are useful as a lead, but they are not a substitute for blinded trial replication.
- **Russ Buckley and other families/patients in the video** — patient-story layer only; useful for human impact, not proof of broad effectiveness.
- **Belly of the Beast / Daniel Montero** — media/documentary source behind the YouTube segment and *Teresita’s Dream*.

## Evidence boundary

The people story is important, but the article should keep three buckets separate: inventor/team biography, peer-reviewed/registered science, and advocacy/medical-tourism claims.