Elionora Peña

• A highly organized, hard-working and passionate researcher with 10 years of laboratory and academic experience seeking to transition into an industrial position.
• My expertise encompasses a broad range of scientific disciplines, from gene-environment studies in obesity and psychosis proneness in adults after childhood trauma to monogenic obesity using whole genome sequence data.
• I had work in multidisciplinary teams with psychiatrist, endocrinologists, nurses, biologist and statisticians.
• I had coordinated projects being part from the whole process: from sample collection until data analysis and manuscript writing.
• Author of 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including 6 as first-author.
• I supervised two master final projects and supervised several students in the laboratory and guided them with statistical analysis and writing.
• I had been part of a two panel thesis defense as an international expert member.

Part of the research team in 5 projects: 

• PI23/00711. Mesenteric- hepatic axis in the development of NAFLD in obesity. The modulator role of bariatric/metabolic surgery. Funded Project by the Government of Spain, Fondo de Invesitagaciones Sanitarias (FIS). Instituto de Salud Carlos III. 136.000 €. International member of the team as main geneticist on the team.
• CBMR International Postdoc Program. Genetic studies of extreme obesity in consanguineous Pakistani families. Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), Denmark. 01/10/2021-30/09/2024. DKK 3,000,000 (€ 300,000). Post-doctoral project. Role as main driver.
• PSI2017-87512-C2-2. Genetic analysis of the moderator effect of common variation on the psychosis phenotype: A new approach based on polygenic risk scores and biological pathways. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. 2018- 2021. 29.040 €. Collaboration student. Participation as collaboration during the period of my doctoral thesis
• CIR2016/034. Connexion between obesity, depression, inflammation and accelerated ageing. Multimodal study in a cohort of patients with morbid obesity candidates for a bariatric surgery. Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí - Ajuts per incentivar la iniciació a la recerca. (Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí). 2016-2017. 6.000 €. PhD project. Role as main driver.
• PSI2011-30321-C02-02. Genetic Variability in Emotion Regulation, Social Bonding and Hypothesised Candidate Pathopysiological Mechanisms in Psychosis: Relationship with Daily-life Stress-Sensitivity and Expression of the Psychosis Continuum Phenotype. CENTRO DE ACUSTICA APLICADA Y EVALUACION NO DESTRUCTIVA. (Universitat de Barcelona). 2011-2015. 48.400 €. Collaboration student. Participation as collaboration undergraduate student and as Master's student

Name: Beca de suport als Màsters Oficials de Biologia.

Organization:  Universitat de Barcelona

Place:  Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Period: 1st of march of 2016 – 31st of July 2018.

Activity: Support: i) maintenance of master website ii) coordination of GRAD programme iii) orders preparation iv) surveys analysis and v) support in pre-enrolment and enrolment process.

Name: Eurolife Winter school 2018 grant.

Organization:  Comité Eurolife

Place:  Obergurgl (Austria)

Period: 15th of December – 21st of December 2018.

Activity: Structure and function of genomes in homeostasis and disease.

Name: Grant for a predoctoral stay

Organization:  Fundació Montcelimar. Universitat de Barcelona

Place:  Social, Genetic and Developmental psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London

Period: 2ndof July – 22nd of September 2019.

Name: Beca de col·laboració en projectes de recerca.

Organization:  Fundació Bosch i Gimpera. Universitat de Barcelona

Place:  Secció de Zoologia i Antropologia Biològica. Dept. Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Period: 11thof November of 2019 – 15th of March of 2020.

Activity: Collaboration in the project 600065 “Genes, ambiente y Desarrollo: Una visión longitudinal en la comprensión del origen de la enfermedad mental y la diversidad del comportamiento humano” directed by Dra. Lourdes Fañanás.

Name: Novo Nordisk Foundation Postdoc Fellowship for research abroad- Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine.

Organization:  Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF)

Place:  Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen

Period: 1stof October of 2021 – Present (3 years grant).

Activity: In charge of Project: “Genetic studies of extreme obesity in consanguineous Pakistani families” supervised by Dr. Torben Hansen.