Biography

Andrea López Suárez is a predoctoral student at the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBERINFEC), Pediatric Infections Group, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Application of host biomarkers in the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis’ focusing on metabolomics analysis of serum and urine samples using NMR spectrometry and cytokine profiling in plasma. She also works as data manager for the Spanish Pediatric TB Network (pTBred) and participates in several tuberculosis-related projects.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Exploring nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomics in serum samples for TB diagnosis in pediatric population: A pilot study

These findings underline the potential of NMR metabolomics potential for distinguishing pediatric TB from HC and TBI. Further validation with a larger sample size is needed to confirm these promising results.

Source: Conference 2024