Biography
Full professor at the Physiology Unit of Medical School, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she combines teaching activities at the grades of Medicine and Physiotherapy and the Master of Neurosciences with basic research at the group of Neuroplasticity and Regeneration.
After defending her PhD thesis in the UAB in 2004, she did a two-year post-doc at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and returned to Barcelona in 2007.
Her current interests are focused on strategies to improve functional recovery after neural injuries in animal models. She has used activity dependent therapies to modulate the plastic changes that occur in the spinal cord after neural injuries, that can interfere with functional outcomes.
She is currently investigating the regenerative capability and the genetic program activated by different subtypes of peripheral neurons after axotomy, and how this response can differ in postnatal stages, with the final aim to design strategies to promote specific regeneration, one of the main factors limiting functional recovery after peripheral nerve injuries.
She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, has also supervised several PhD and master thesis, and has been IP of national research projects and collaborator of European ones.