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RESEARCH GROUPS

PROGRAMME:
Grupo de Epidemiología
Group 38
Epidemiology and Prevention
of Chronic Diseases
Laboral y Ambiental

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STAFF MEMBERS
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Arjona Camí, Lourdes
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Castao Vinyals, Gemma í
Gracia Lavedan, Esther
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ASSOCIATED MEMBERS
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Cardis, Elisabeth
Carrasco Lpez, Estela

Carrasco Turigas, Gloria
Carretero Garca, Gemma

Casas Sanahuja, Mara Isabel
Cirach Pradas, Marta

Cole-Hunter, Thomas Anthony

Dadvand, Payam
Eastman, Chelsea

Esnaola Acebes, Mikel
Espinosa Morano, Ana Lead Researcher

Ferreras Barrera, Eva
Figuerola Alquezar, Jordi Kogevinas, Emmanouil

Font Ribera, Laia

Contact:
Fthenou, Eleni
Gonzlez Ruz, Juan Ramn
Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL)
C/ Doctor Aiguader, 88. Grellier, James
Kubesch, Janet Nadine
1a pl. Edifici PRBB. 08003 Barcelona · Phone: (+34) 93 214 73 32
E.mail: [email protected] Matamala Minguet, Jaume
Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark
Website: www.creal.cat
O’callaghan Gordo, Cristina
Papantoniou, Kyriaki
Main lines of research
Pedersen, Marie

Pernot, Eileen The main research of the group is focused in environmental, occupational
Plazas Elas, Mara Monserrat
and genetic factors related to cancer, respiratory disease and child health.
Schembari, Ana
Triguero Mas, Margarita Among the main exposures, the group is focused on radiations (smartpho-
nes, UV, ionizing), water pollutants (disinfection by-products in drinking
Van Gent, Diana
Villanueva, Cristina water and swimming pools), air pollution, transport and green spaces in
urban areas, hormonal disruption, life style (diet, passive smoking), as well
Zock, Jan-Paul
as occupational studies in cleaning workers and shift-work and circadian cy- 13
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cle disruption. In the last years we have applied new technologies to assess T
Ferrer de Molina, Ma del Mar
the exposure (e.g. Smartphones), extensively used new biomedical techno- R
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logies (Exposome, biomarkers, genomics, epigenetics, metabolomics) and E
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funded by grants from FIS, FP7 (EU), and NIH (USA).
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