Miriam Illa
PI
Clinician
Míriam Illa is coordinator of the Fetal Therapy and Surgery line and the BCNatal-FMRC Animal Model Platform.
Having graduated (2004) and obtained a PhD (2017) in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona, respectively, she specialized (2009) in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.
The author of more than 25 articles in maternal and fetal medicine, she has been a visiting researcher abroad and in national centers (University of Cambridge, Leuven and Pablo Olavide) as part of her training and holds the title of "Accredited Personnel for Animal Research" of FELASA (2009, University of Barcelona).
At the clinical level, she has specialized in high-risk maternal pathology by assisting both in the Prenatal Unit, in the Monocorial Twin Gestation Unit, and in the Neurosonography Unit. She has also participated as a second assistant in fetal surgeries within the Fetal Therapy team. Since 2014, her clinical activity has focused on the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital as Coordinator of the Maternal-fetal Medicine ward, also joining the Neurosonography Unit and the shifts of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service.
recent publications
- Lactoferrin/sialic acid prevents adverse effects of intrauterine growth restriction on neurite length: investigations in an in vitro rabbit neurosphere model.
Britta Anna Kühne, Lara Gutierrez-Vázquez, Estela Sánchez Lamelas, Laia Guardia-Escote, Laura Pla, Carla Loreiro, Eduard Gratacós, Marta Barenys, Miriam Illa. Front Cell Neurosci. 2023
- Acute fetal cardiovascular adaptation to artificial placenta in sheep model.
Sanchez-Martinez S, Randanne PC, Hawkins-Villarreal A, Rezaei K, Fucho R, Bobillo-Perez S, Bonet-Carne E, Illa M, Eixarch E, Bijnens B, Crispi F, Gratacós E; collaborators.. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2023
- Application of the adverse outcome pathway to identify molecular changes in prenatal brain programming induced by IUGR: Discoveries after EGCG exposure.
Kühne BA, Teixidó E, Ettcheto M, Puig T, Planas M, Feliu L, Pla L, Campuzano V, Gratacós E, Fritsche E, Illa M, Barenys M.. Food Chem Toxicol 2022
- Protocols for the Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Alterations in Rabbit Models In Vitro and In Vivo.
Pla L, Kühne BA, Guardia-Escote L, Vázquez-Aristizabal P, Loreiro C, Flick B, Gratacós E, Barenys M, Illa M.. Frontiers Toxicology 2022
- Docosahexaenoic Acid and Melatonin Prevent Impaired Oligodendrogenesis Induced by Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR).
\"Britta Anna Kühne, Paula Vázquez-Aristizabal, Mercè Fuentes-Amell, Laura Pla, Carla Loreiro, Jesús Gómez-Catalán, Eduard Gratacós, Miriam Illa, Marta Barenys \". Biomedicines 2022
- Micro-needle implantable electrochemical oxygen sensor: ex-vivo and in-vivo studies.
Rivas L, Dulay S, Miserere S, Pla L, Marin SB, Parra J, Eixarch E, Gratacós E, Illa M, Mir M, Samitier J. Biosens Bioelectron 2020
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