Cristina Jou Muñoz
Investigador pre-doc
Research group
Cristina Jou graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1997 from the University of Lleida Barcelona and obtained her specialist degree in Pathological Anatomy in 2002. Since 2008, she works at the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital at the service of Pathological Anatomy, being the responsible for neuropathology.
In 2014, she made a stay at the Institute de Myologie in Paris with a dedication to muscle pathology, expanding his knowledge in electron microscopy.
Since 2015, she is a member attached to the Center for Biomedical Research in Rare Diseases Network (CIBERER), and is the author and co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.
Since 2018 she has been the scientific director of the Biobank of the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, focused on promoting biomedical research in paediatrics at our centre but with an open assignment to other researchers. The Biobank has been part of the National Network of Biobanks of the Carlos III Health Institute since 2010, has been registered with the Generalitat since 2013.
Professional network profiles
Last Publications
- Suárez-Calvet X, Fernández-Simón E, Natera-de Benito D, Jou-Munoz C, Pinol-Jurado P, Villalobos E, Ortez-Gonzalez CI, Monceau A, Schiava M, Codina-Bergadà A, Verdu-Díaz J, Clark J, Laidler Z, Mehra P, Gokul-Nath R, Alonso-Perez J, Marini-Bettolo C, Tasca G, Straub V, Guglieri M, Nascimento-Osorio A and Diaz-Manera J Decoding the transcriptome of Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the single nuclei level reveals clinical-genetic correlations CELL DEATH & DISEASE . 14(9): 596-596.
- Oliva-Mussara C, Arias A, Ruiz M, Pujol A, Garrabou G, Canto-Santos J, Urreizti R, Castilla-Vallmanya L, Rodriguez H, Jou-Munoz C, Casado-Rio M, Ormazabal-Herrero A and Artuch-Iriberri R Fibroblast phenylalanine concentration as a surrogate biomarker of cellular number JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES . 1226: 123787-123787.
- Justel M, Jou-Munoz C, Sariego A, Musokhranova U, Nascimento-Osorio A, Garcia-Cazorla A and Natera-de Benito D Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of TRAPPC11-related muscular dystrophy: 25 Roma individuals carrying a founder variant JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS . 60(10): 965-973.
Projects
- Project name:
- Ensayo clínico de seguridad y factibilidad de inmunoterapia celular: Células dendríticas autólogas pulsadas con un lisado de líneas tumorales alogénicas, asociadas con CART anti-IL13Ra2 en pacientes con tumor difuso intrínseco de tronco (DIPG) (fase Ib)
- Leader
- Andrés Morales La Madrid
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- ICI23/00063
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2024 - 2027
- Project name:
- Plataforma de Biobanco, Biomodelos e Impresión 3D Sant Joan de Déu como paradigma de excelencia en investigacion Pediatrica.
- Leader
- Cristina Jou Muñoz
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PT23/00002
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2024 - 2026
- Project name:
- Pipeline para el diagnóstico y seguimiento de pacientes con enfermedades mitocondriales basado en un análisis multiómico: Mitoverso
- Leader
- Rafael Artuch Iriberri
- Funding entities:
- Artuch Iriberri, Rafael, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PI23/00006
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2024 - 2026
News
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Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu joins the european platform EBRAIN
Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) strengthens its european position in the neuroscience’s field and the human brain’s study with its incorporation to the EBRAINS platform. A digital research infrastructure, created by the Human Brain Project (HBP) and partly funded by the European Union, which brings together a wide range of data and tools for brain research.
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Measuring antibodies in saliva is a useful and easy strategy to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections
A study, published in BMC Medicine, performed through the Kids Corona platform from Sant Joan de Déu in collaboration with ISGlobal, shows that measuring antibodies in saliva is a useful and easy strategy to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections.