Anna Fàbrega Santamaria
Member of Research line in Mechanisms of tissue repair and regeneration
ORCID: 0000-0002-3866-2291
Scientific Profile: URECERCA
Anna Fàbrega is Professor and Coordinator of the Department of Basic Sciences at the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC). She is also part-time lecturer of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine (UVic-UCC) and member of the Ethics Committee for Research with Medicines, Health Products and Clinical Interventions (CEIm) of the IRIS-CC.
Anna Fàbrega studied Biology (2004, UB) and Biochemistry (2006, UB) and did her PhD studies (2010) at the Clinical Microbiology Department of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (UB). She did research stages at the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France) and the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA). She continued her research career with a postdoc at ISglobal (2011-2015) and a research contract at the Clinical Microbiology Department of the Hospital Vall d’Hebron of Barcelona (VHIR, 2016-2020).
Her expertise was focused on the study of bacterial pathogens and infectious diseases, including antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, bacterial virulence, pathogenicity, host response biomarkers, antigen vaccine candidates and molecular epidemiology.
In 2020 she joined the UVic-UCC as a coordinator of the Basic Sciences department on the Manresa Campus. There, she is starting a new research project on the study of the characteristics and evolutionary changes in the microbiome of complex wounds, namely diabetic food ulcers.
My last happenings:
Effect of photobiomodulation in the balance between effector and regulatory T cells in an experimental model of COPD
Effect of photobiomodulation in the balance between effector and regulatory T cells in an experimental model of COPD Authors: Aurileia Aparecida de Brito, Karine Zanella Herculano, Cristiano Rodrigo de Alvarenga-Nascimento, Cintia Estefano-Alves, Cinthya Cosme Gutierrez Duran, Rodrigo Labat Marcos, Jose Antonio Silva Junior, Maria Cristina Chavantes, Stella Regina Zamuner, Flavio Aimbire, Laia Llado-Pelfort, Albert Gubern, Anna Fàbrega, Renata Kelly da Palma and Ana Paula Ligeiro de Oliveira Introduction: Currently, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has a high impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide. The increase of CD4+, CD8+ cells expressing NF-κB, STAT4, IFN-γ and [...]
