Aleix Gavaldà Navarro
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
- Domingo P, Giralt M, Gavaldà-Navarro A, Blasco-Roset A, Delgado-Anglés A, Gallego-Escuredo JM, Gutiérrez MDM, Mateo MG, Cereijo R, Domingo JC, Villarroya-Gombau F and Villarroya-Terrade J Adipose tissue aging partially accounts for fat alterations in HIV lipodystrophy. Adipocyte . 11(1): 143-152.
- Comas F, Díaz-Trelles R, Gavaldà-Navarro A, Milbank E, Dragano N, Morón S, Mukthavaram R, Latorre J, Ortega F, Arnoriaga-Rodriguez M, Oliveras-Cañellas N, Ricart W, Karmali PP, Tachikawa K, Chivukula P, Villarroya-Gombau F, Giralt M, López M, Fernández-Real JM and Moreno-Navarrete JM Downregulation of peripheral lipopolysaccharide binding protein impacts on perigonadal adipose tissue only in female mice. BIOMEDICINE & PHARMACOTHERAPY . 151: 113156-113156.
- Garreta E, Prado P, Stanifer ML, Monteil V, Marco A, Ullate-Agote A, Moya-Rull D, Vilas-Zornoza A, Tarantino C, Romero JP, Jonsson G, Oria R, Leopoldi A, Hagelkruys A, Gallo M, González F, Domingo-Pedrol P, Gavaldà-Navarro A, Del Pozo CH, Hasan Ali O, Ventura-Aguiar P, Campistol JM, Prosper F, Mirazimi A, Boulant S, Penninger JM and Montserrat N A diabetic milieu increases ACE2 expression and cellular susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections in human kidney organoids and patient cells. CELL METABOLISM . 34(6): .
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.