Group description
The Group of Predictive Biomedicine and Translational Research of Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases is a multidisciplinary group of researchers from different departments and health sciences areas and institutions, mainly from the School of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain. The UCM group has been positively evaluated by the National Quality Assessment and Accreditation Agency of Spain (ANEC). The group is composed by biologists, geneticists, medical doctors, surgeons, physics, statisticians and nutritionists.
The group is involved in different research lines as studies related to predictive medicine, molecular mechanisms involved in Covid-19 mediated cell damage, in cellullar and molecular mechanisms associated with thrombo-coagulation and in the development of algorithms by AI to predict obesity based on life style and genetics etc. We use clinical data, molecular biology and genetic in addition to cells cultures. We have published more than 250 scientific papers and we have directed more than 80 thesis.
Our PI, Professor Antonio López Farré, was awarded the National Prize on Research as Young Researcher of the Decade of Spain in 2001 awarded by the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain (RANM). In 2019, he was awarded the Annual Prize from the RANM and named academician and also received the Gold Cross of Honour of Health of the Community of Madrid, the highest award.