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  • Joseph Antoni Ramos-Quiroga

    Head of the Mental Health Service
    Website University
    (University Autònoma de Barcelona)

    Professor JA Ramos-Quiroga is the Head of the Mental Health Service at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Head of the research group on Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and Professor of Psychiatry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
    He has several collaborations with national and international groups of research: Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salut Mental (CIBERSAM) of Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Board Member of Internacional Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Abuse (ICASA) (www.adhdandsubstanceabuse.org/), Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) (www. med.unc.edu/pgc), ENIGMA consortium (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis) (www. https://enigma.ini.usc.edu/), International Multicenter Persistent ADHD Collaboration (IMPACT) (www.impactadhdgenomics.com/about-impact), co-Chair of ECNP ADHD Network (ECNP; www.ecnp.eu), member of European Network for Hyperkinetic Disoders (www.eunethydis.eu) and member of AIMS-2-TRIALS (Austim Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials) (www.imi.europa.eu/projects-results/project-factsheets/aims-2-trials) and Board member of Xarxa TECSAM (Network on innovation and research in Mental Health and Technologies) (www.tecsam.org/es/).
    His research activity focuses on the study of the biological bases of mental disorders, emphasizing neurodevelopmental disorders and mood disorders, with a translational perspective.
    He has published a total of 336 scientific articles indexed with an impact factor, 138 of them in the first quartile. In Scopus it has a total of 20,050 citations, an H index of 56 (accessed 06/28/2024). In Web of Science, he has an average of 41.96 citations for each published article and in the last 5 years the average annual citation is 2,206.4. The author has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell, Nature Genetics, JAMA psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, as a result of international scientific collaborations, some of which have more than 1,000 citations in total, with an average of 100 citations per month. The group he directs has also led publications in journals with a high impact factor in the specialty as a result of international collaborations, such as Molecular Psychiatry, Brain Behavior and Immunity, Neuropsychopharmacology or Biological Psychiatry, among others. In the "Google Scholar" program, he has a total number of 23,414 citations and an h-index of 65.

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    Link to projects

    VHIR's website

  • Marta Ribases

    Senior researcher
    Website University
    (university of Bergen)

    I am a senior researcher and I am currently leading the Psychiatric Genetics Unit at the Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addiction of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute in Barcelona.
    I have 20 years of comprehensive experience in biomedical research, with special focus on Psychiatric Genetics. My research interest is in the interplay between genetics and environmental factors and their role in psychiatric disorders through lifespan. My main objective is to contribute breaking the stigma associated with psychiatric disorders and showing them as biological conditions by using high-throughput -omics data and multiple approaches, that include Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS), candidate-gene studies, analyses of transcriptome and microRNA profiles with microarray technology and deep sequencing, methylome and microbiota profiling.
    I hold accreditations for research (2019) and advanced research (equivalent to Full Professor; 2023) of the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) and the I3 certification (Incentive for the Incorporation and Intensification of Research Activity) of Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. For more than 7 years I was consultant at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), I’m currently Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics of the University of Barcelona and collaborate in different master's and doctoral programs.
    I receive permanent, competitive and overlapping funding from Spanish and European public institutions and have been awarded with multiple Human Resources competitive contracts. I participate in stable research structures, being co-PI of the group 27 at the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) and member of the "ADHD across the lifespan" at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Network, the SGR Consolidated Research Group in Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addiction (2017SGR1461 and 2021SGR00840) or the Innovation Network of New Technologies in Mental Health (TECSAM), from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
    I am active member of international consortia and PI and/or workpackage leader in different interdisciplinary projects. I successfully supervised multiple PhD and master theses and participated in different PhD Commissions and evaluation panels for research proposals from national and international institutions.

     

    Link to project and publications

    Vhir's website