Presentación
RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSIS OF INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASES

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Excellent Group
Composition
Name
Position
Institution
Profesora Titular
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. CBM "Severo Ochoa"
Patricia Alcaide Alonso
Investigadora Postdoctoral
CEDEM
Margarita Castro Reguera
Investigadora Predoctoral
CEDEM
Magdalena de Ugarte Pérez
Directora del CEDEM
CEDEM
Isaac Ferrer López
Técnico de Laboratorio
CEDEM
María Alejandra Gámez Abascal
Investigadora Senior (Contrato Ramón y Cajal)
CBM "Severo Ochoa"
Fernando García Muñoz
Técnico de Laboratorio
CEDEM
Fátima Leal Pérez
Técnico de Laboratorio
CIBERER
Rosa María Navarrete López de Soria
Técnico de Laboratorio
CIBERER
Eva María Richard Rodríguez
Profesora Titular
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
CBM "Severo Ochoa"
María Pilar Rodríguez Pombo
Profesora Titular
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
CBM "Severo Ochoa"
María Lourdes Ruiz Desviat
Profesora Titular
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
CBM "Severo Ochoa"
Pedro Ruiz Sala
Investigador Postdoctoral
CEDEM
Strategic Objective
• Development of genomic and metabolomic techniques aimed at improving the diagnosis of hereditary metabolic diseases.
• Study of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress as a modifier of the clinical phenotype and as a potential therapeutic target in organic acidurias.
• Development of animal and cellular models.
• Registry of patients with hereditary metabolic diseases.
Research Lines
• Improved diagnosis of congenital defects of glycosylation and mitochondrial defects through the application of genomic techniques (RNAseq and DNAseq of exoma and genome) and metabolomics.
• Identification of intronic mutations by the capture of the PAH and OTC gene. Functional validation in cellular splicing systems.
• Development of antisense therapy and pharmacological chaperones as therapeutic approaches transverse and applicable to numerous EMH.
• Study of oxidative stress and evaluation of common signatures of neuropathogenicity and cardiotoxicity in congenital defects of glycosylation, organic acidemias and mitochondrial diseases.
• Evaluation of drugs aimed at the recovery of mitochondrial function and biogénesis.
• Search for biomarkers as predictors of HMS severity and as systems for the evaluation of pharmacological therapies.
• Characterization of pathophysiology in a murine model of propionic acidemia.
• Identification of dysregulated miRNA in propionic acidemia and characterization of its association with pathology and its usefulness as biomarkers.
• Generation of iPS of patients with organic academia and congenital defects of glycosylation and differentiation to hepatocytes, neural progenitors or cardiomyocytes.