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Manuel Comabella Lopez

Dr. Manuel Comabella earned his medical degree at the University of Barcelona, completed his neurology residency at the Neurology Department of the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), and earned his PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2004, Dr. Manuel Comabella is the Head of the Clinical Neuroimmunology laboratory at the Fundació Institut de Recerca del HUVH. Since June 2008 he works as a clinical neurologist at the Department of Neurology / Neuroimmunology of the MS Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), HUVH, Barcelona.

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Clinical Neuroimmunology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Responsable Laboratori
Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia

Manuel Comabella Lopez

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Clinical Neuroimmunology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Responsable Laboratori
Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia

Dr. Manuel Comabella earned his medical degree at the University of Barcelona, completed his neurology residency at the Neurology Department of the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), and earned his PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2004, Dr. Manuel Comabella is the Head of the Clinical Neuroimmunology laboratory at the Fundació Institut de Recerca del HUVH. Since June 2008 he works as a clinical neurologist at the Department of Neurology / Neuroimmunology of the MS Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), HUVH, Barcelona.

From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Manuel Comabella was a Research Fellow in Neuroimmunology at the Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women´s Hospital, in Boston. In 2010 was awarded with the Ayudas Merck Serono in the multiple sclerosis research area. In 2011 was awarded by the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) with the Biogen Idec Prize to the best publication on demyelinating disorders. In 2013 was awarded by the SEN with the Novartis Prize to the best oral communication and the best publication on demyelinating disorders. In 2014 received the Neurological Disorders Award, scientific modality, granted by the SEN. In 2016 was awarded with the Ayudas Merck Serono in the multiple sclerosis research area. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Manuel Comabella was a collaborator of the Biomedicine area at the Division of Coordination, Evaluation and Scientific and Technical Follow-up of the State Research Agency, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Dr. Manuel Comabella is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Journal, member of the Board of the ESNI (European School of Neuroimmunology), and member of the Strategic Group of the IMSGC (International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium). He is coauthor of 297 documents indexed in MedLine (Scopus: 12916 total citations, with h-index of 54). Dr. Manuel Comabella's research interest lies in the identification of biomarkers related with different aspects of multiple sclerosis and the development of new therapeutic strategies for the disease.

Projects

Búsqueda de variantes genéticas causales y estudio de sus implicaciones funcionales en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple

IP: Manuel Comabella Lopez
Collaborators: Jordi Rio Izquierdo, Ingrid Galán Cartaña, Montserrat Moreno Sánchez
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 147015
Reference: PI12/02229
Duration: 01/01/2013 - 30/06/2017

Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple

IP: Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple
Collaborators: Susana Otero Romero, Carlos Nos Llopis, Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple, Jaume Sastre Garriga, Jordi Rio Izquierdo, Fco. Javier Aymerich Martínez, Ingrid Galán Cartaña, Rosalia Horno Ocaña, Manuel Comabella Lopez, Carmen Tur Gomez, Cristina Auger Acosta, Herena Eixarch Ahufinger, Montserrat Moreno Sánchez, Alex Rovira Cañellas, Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple, M Jesus Arevalo Navines, Carmen Espejo Ruiz, Angela Vidal Jordana, Joaquin Castillo Justribo, Mireia Castillo Juarez, Nicolás Miguel Fissolo
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 198090
Reference: RD12/0032/0017
Duration: 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2016

Regenerating myelin in multiple sclerosis: search of therapies that favour remyelination based on genomic-signatures of neural stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells differentiated to oligodendrocytes

IP: -
Collaborators: Manuel Comabella Lopez
Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Funding: 200000
Reference: 121830
Duration: 30/01/2013 - 31/12/2016

Estudio con células madre para buscar nuevos tratamientos en esclerosis múltiple 15271

IP: Manuel Comabella Lopez
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundación Caja Navarra
Funding: 11497.05
Reference: CAN-2010-15271
Duration: 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2011

Related news

An international study led by researchers from Vall d’Hebron shows that simple tests that patients can perform themselves help detect changes in disability that may occur even in the absence of disease relapses.

A Vall d’Hebron study, carried out at Cemcat, shows that the risk of inflammatory activity increases after discontinuing treatment, but is considerably reduced in people over 60 years of age.

The project will analyse the functional activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome to advance the early identification of patients at risk of insufficient response to S1P receptor-modulating therapies.

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