Aleix Gavaldà Navarro
Investigador
Aleix Gavaldà graduated in Biology, specializing in Health Biology, in 2006 from the University of Barcelona. In 2007, he obtained a master's degree in Biomedicine and in 2012 he obtained his Doctor of Biomedicine degree from the University of Barcelona.
He then joined the team of Dr. Francesc Villarroya as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona. In 2018, he made a research stay at the Center for Applied Medical Research of the University of Navarra.
Since 2015 he is an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Barcelona.
His research is based on the identification of regulatory factors of the thermogenic activity of brown adipose tissue and the browning process of white adipose tissue. It also studies the protective effect of brown adipose tissue activation on the development of hepatocarcinogenesis enhanced by lipid lipotoxicity.
Institut de Biomedicina de la UB (IBUB) Last Publications
- García-Arroyo R, Gavalda A, Villarroya F, Marfany G and Mirra S Overexpression of CERKL Protects Retinal Pigment Epithelium Mitochondria from Oxidative Stress Effects. Antioxidants . 10(12): .
- Milbank E, Dragano NRV, González-García I, Garcia MR, Rivas-Limeres V, Perdomo L, Hilairet G, Ruiz-Pino F, Mallegol P, Morgan DA, Iglesias-Rey R, Contreras C, Vergori L, Cuñarro J, Porteiro B, Gavalda A, Oelkrug R, Vidal A, Roa J, Sobrino T, Villarroya F, Diéguez C, Nogueiras R, García-Cáceres C, Tena-Sempere M, Mittag J, Carmen Martínez M, Rahmouni K, Andriantsitohaina R and López M Small extracellular vesicle-mediated targeting of hypothalamic AMPKa1 corrects obesity through BAT activation. Nature Metabolism . 3(10): 1415-1431.
- Mirra S, Arroyo RG, Domènech EB, Gavalda A, Herrera-Úbeda C, Oliva C, Garcia-Fernàndez J, Artuch-Iriberri R, Villarroya F and Marfany G CERKL, a retinal dystrophy gene, regulates mitochondrial function and dynamics in the mammalian retina. NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE . 156: 105405-105405.
News
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Brown adipose tissue activity is higher in girls during the first year of life
A team led by Dr Lourdes Ibáñez and Dr Francesc Villarroya, IRSJD researchers, publishes the first study that shows the very early appearance of differences in the activity of the brown adipose tissue between girls and boys.