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Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández

I am responsible for the Mycobacteria Unit at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, which is the WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for tuberculosis. My main line of research is the diagnosis of tuberculosis and the detection of resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Other lines of research are the detection and resistance of Mycobacterium abscessus complex due to its involvement in patients with cystic fibrosis and the application of molecular techniques either for epidemiology or the detection of mycobacteria.

Institutions of which they are part

Microbiology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Doctor
Microbiology
Cross-departmental services

Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández

Institutions of which they are part

Microbiology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Doctor
Microbiology
Cross-departmental services

I am responsible for the Mycobacteria Unit at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, which is the WHO Supranational Reference Laboratory for tuberculosis. My main line of research is the diagnosis of tuberculosis and the detection of resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Other lines of research are the detection and resistance of Mycobacterium abscessus complex due to its involvement in patients with cystic fibrosis and the application of molecular techniques either for epidemiology or the detection of mycobacteria.

I have a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona; I specialized in Microbiology and Parasitology at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital, I obtained my doctorate in Medicine and Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and I am an associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the UAB since 1997
I belong to the following research groups: The Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET), Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Network European Trials Group (NTM-NET), Pediatric TB Research Network (pTBred), TB HIV study group in EuroCoord, Barcelona Tuberculosis recurrence Working Group and Spanish Infectious Pathology Research Network (REIPI). It is important to review the Barcelona Tuberculosis Recurrence Working Group group since all the people who work in the major Hospitals in the Barcelona area are part of this group and the said group has collaborated in different works with the CDC of Atlanta (USA).
I have been a Tutor of residents from 2006 to 2019. I have the certificate in Teacher Training in Higher Education FDES (UAB) and I had a favorable assessment of Lecturer in the Field of Medical and Health Sciences in 2019 from the AQU.
I teach classes in university training in the Degrees of Medicine and Biomedicine and I also teach in master's degrees.
I have supervised 2 doctoral theses and am currently supervising 1 doctoral thesis.

Projects

Grup de Recerca en Microbiologia de Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron

IP: Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez
Collaborators: María Nieves Larrosa Escartin, Maria Belén Viñado Perez, Gema Codina Grau, Virginia Rodríguez Garrido, Andres Antón Pagarolas, Juliana Esperalba Esquerra, Ariadna Rando Segura, Alba Mir Cros, Yannick Hoyos Mallecot, Joan Joseph Munné, Tomàs Pumarola Suñé, Mayli Lung Suarez, Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández, Albert Moreno Mingorance, Maria Piñana Moro, Aroa Silgado Gimenez, Elena Sulleiro Igual, Lidia Goterris Bonet, Josep Roca Grande, Alejandra Gonzalez Sánchez, Narcís Saubí Roca, Jesus Trejo Zahinos
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 0.01
Reference: 2021 SGR 01129
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 30/06/2025

Enfermedades infecciosas

IP: Israel Molina Romero
Collaborators: Maria Luisa Aznar Ruiz de Alegria, Eva Baldrich Rubio, Diana Pou Ciruelo, Begoña Treviño Maruri, Pau Bosch Nicolau, Nuria Serre Delcor, Fernando M Salvador Velez, Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández, Adrián Sánchez Montalvá, Elena Sulleiro Igual, Ines Mercedes Oliveira Souto
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 141000
Reference: CB21/13/00029
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022

Multicentre Controlled Open Randomized Clinical Trial to assess efficacy and safety of an anti-TB drug combination based on high dose Rifampicin, high dose Moxifloxacin and Linezolid for DS smear positive pulmonary TB during the first 8weeks of treatmen

IP: Adrián Sánchez Montalvá
Collaborators: Maria Luisa Aznar Ruiz de Alegria, Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 187550
Reference: PI20/01378
Duration: 01/01/2021 - 30/06/2025

Incorporació Dr. Benito Almirante a la RETICS en malalties infeccioses RED ESPAÑOLA DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN PATOLOGÍAS INFECCIOSAS

IP: -
Collaborators: María Nieves Larrosa Escartin, Oscar Len Abad, Gema Codina Grau, Mª Carmen Ferrer Barberà, Andres Antón Pagarolas, Rosa María Bartolomé Comas, Nuria Fernández Hidalgo, Joan Gavaldà Santapau, Juliana Esperalba Esquerra, Ma Dolores Rodríguez Pardo, Alba Mir Cros, Julia Sellares Nadal, Tomàs Pumarola Suñé, Carles Pigrau Serrallach, Isabel Ruiz Camps, Mayli Lung Suarez, Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández, Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez, Pablo Salvador Corona Pérez-Cardona, Ibai Los Arcos Bertiz
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 401918
Reference: RD16/0016/0003
Duration: 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2022

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