QUILES PÉREZ, María Teresa

Academic training

PhD in Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Degree in Biological Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona.
Postgraduate in Quality Assurance in laboratories. ISO 9001, ISO 17025, ISO 15189, GLP. IL3, Universitat de Barcelona.

Professional experience

I started my research activity at the Vall de Hebron University Hospital (HUVH) in the field of protein metabolism in relation to surgical stress, parenteral nutrition and ageing.

After a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Biochemistry of the UB in 2001, where I participated in the study of the physiopathology of cancer cachexia.

I returned to the HUVH, where I collaborated in projects in the field of nephrology and general surgery (abdominal wall repair).

In 2004, I moved to the Biomedical Research Unit (HUVH), where I focused my research on prostate pathologies and surgical repair of the abdominal wall.

In 2012 I joined the General Surgery Research Group (Vall de Hebron Research Institute; VHIR), consolidated by AGAUR, where I am still a researcher.

I have participated in competitive projects in the field of abdominal wall, pelvic organ prolapse (in collaboration with the Gynaecology Service, HUVH); and in the study of adipose tissue biology after bariatric surgery. I have also participated in projects linked to agreements with private bodies.

As a result, there have been publications in national and international indexed journals, communications have been presented at national and international congresses, and I have been a member of the Scientific Board of the XII National Congress of Abdominal Wall Surgery (2013), and the 45th Congress of the European Hernia Society (2023).

For the last 20 years I have been supervisor of university and professional training placements, undergraduate and postgraduate projects and I have been co-director of four doctoral theses.

I have been a collaborating lecturer in the Bachelor of Medicine at the UIC for 10 years, and since 2020 I have been coordinating the Clinical Biochemistry course in the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences at the same university.

I have also been involved as a lecturer in university Master's courses (UAB, UB).