Portal de investigación
Maria Pilar Ballester Ferre
Metabolismo y daño orgánico
Currículum vitae
Graduate in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Valencia and specialist in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Clinical Hospital of Valencia. During her degree, she obtained a collaboration scholarship with the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valencia. She completed the master’s degree in “Research in Clinical Medicine” from the University Miguel Hernández of Elche. She received a Rio Hortega contract (CM19/00011) from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III that allowed her to combine her training in clinical and translational research with healthcare activity in the Digestive Disease Department of the University Clinical Hospital of Valencia. She obtained her PhD in Medicine in February 2021, focused on the study of immune dysfunction associated with minimal hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis, with “cum laude” mention and extraordinary doctorate award from the University of Valencia. She completed a predoctoral stay at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA, an international reference center in liver transplantation, under the supervision of Dr. Ramón Bataller. For this stay she received funding from Sociedad Valenciana de Patología Digestiva (SVPD) and INCLIVA Health Research Institute. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral stay at University College London, United Kingdom, supervised by Dr. Rajiv Jalan, for which she also received funding from INCLIVA Health Research Institute. During this stay she studied the role of ammonia in the pathogenesis and treatment of complications of cirrhosis, with the creation of the European AMMON consortium, which she currently coordinates. She has recently received the Juan Córdoba scholarship from the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver (AEEH) to continue advancing in the study of complications of cirrhosis and has applied for her first patent through University College London. She has collaborated in 3 competitive projects from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ramón Areces Foundation and Prometeo Program of Generalitat Valenciana and has received her first FIS project as principal investigator for 2024. She was one of the founders of the Young Group of the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology (AEG) and during 4 years she was part of its scientific committee. She is currently part of the translational scientific committee of the International Society of Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism (ISHEN) and is a member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). As a result, she has presented more than 70 abstracts at national and international conferences with awards for the best poster and oral presentation at SVPD conference in 2016 and 2018, respectively. She has published 30 scientific articles with 50% as first author and 40% as corresponding, 53% of them in Q1 journals. At the same time, she has performed teaching tasks with co-tutoring of 5 final degree projects, 1 final master’s project and 2 PhDs.
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