Mónica Tramullas Fernández

Mónica Tramullas is a Professor of Physiology & Pharmacology at Cantabria University, Santander. She obtained a B.Sc. Degree in Pharmacy from the Santiago de Compostela University in 2000. In 2007, she obtained a Ph.D. from Cantabria University. She completed her postdoctoral training by performing two stays of more than four years in centers of recognized prestige (Research Institute Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander and Alimentary Pharmabiotic Center, University College Cork, Ireland). In 2012, she joined the Juan de la Cierva Program in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Cantabria University. Prof. Tramullas has an H-Index of 12 having published 18 peer-reviewed articles including in high-impact journals such as (Science Translational Medicine, Pharmacological Research, Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Gastroenterology, Cardiovascular Research). Her recent contribution published in Science Translational Medicine has been selected by the International Association for the Study of Pain among the 10 most relevant findings of 2018 in the field of pain Prof. Tramullas has co-directed six Doctoral Theses together with Prof. Hurlé, and currently, she is co-director of two other Doctoral Theses. She has been awarded several prizes; the Isabel Torres Award and Almirall Award in pharmacology for the best research project and the European prize for the best young researcher (EPHAR). Prof. Tramullas’s, current research interests are focus on the understanding the mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of chronic neuropathic pain; the search of new potential therapies to prevent and/or treat chronic pain and the identification of new biomarkers in fluids (plasma and CSF) of patients with potential to diagnose and/or prognosticate the presence of neuropathic pain.