Cecilia Cabrera
Principal Investigator
Tissue Virology (VITI)
Fundacio IrsiCaixa
Spain
Biography
Cecilia Cabrera graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1994. She pursued doctoral studies in IrsiCaixa, obtaining a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2001. After a period of postdoctoral studies at IrsiCaixa, in 2005 she obtained a position as a Spanish Ministry of Health biomedical researcher assigned to the Germans Trias i Pujol Institute for Health Science Research (IGTP) in Badalona. She is a regular reviewer of the international journal AIDS, has published 47 scientific papers, has benefited from ongoing public and private funding for her research and collaborates with several national and international groups. In her teaching role she has supervised five doctoral theses (two currently underway).
Research Interest
Virology,Immunology
Publications
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Mónica Gumá Cecilia Cabrera Itziar Erkizia Margarita Bofill Bonaventura Clotet Lidia Ruiz Miguel López-Botet The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 194, Issue 1, 1 July 2006, Pages 38–41, https://doi.org/10.1086/504719
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Blanco, J., Cunyat, F., Curriu, M., Clotet, B., Cabrera, C., GarcÃa, E., Marfil, S., Pérez-Alvárez, N., Perno, C.F., & Svicher, V. (2011). The HR2 polymorphism N140I in the HIV-1 gp41 combined with the HR1 V38A mutation is associated with a less cytopathic phenotype. Retrovirology.
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Curriu, M., Carrillo, J., Massanella, M., Rigau, J., Alegre, J., Puig, J., … Blanco, J. (2013). Screening NK-, B- and T-cell phenotype and function in patients suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Journal of Translational Medicine, 11, 68.
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Curriu, M., Fausther-Bovendo, H., Pernas, M., Massanella, M., Carrillo, J., Cabrera, C., … Blanco, J. (2012). Viremic HIV Infected Individuals with High CD4 T Cells and Functional Envelope Proteins Show Anti-gp41 Antibodies with Unique Specificity and Function. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e30330.
