Isabel Barao-Silvestre

Isabel Barao-Silvestre, aka Isabel Barao, Ph.D., is a cancer immunologist and a Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Nevada Reno, Nevada, US. She is researching the causes of abnormal NK cell functioning in ME/CFS patients and its use as a potential biomarker for ME/CFS.

From 2013 to 2015, Barao-Silvestre worked as the Scientific Director of Simmaron Research, Incline Village, Nevada.

In 2016, Barao-Silvestre was awarded a grant from Solve ME/CFS Initiative Ramsay Award Program for the project, “The Bioenergetic Health Index of NK Cells as a Diagnostic Tool for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”  in 2017, she was awarded a grant from the National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases for "Risk of CFS Due to IgG Receptor Genes that Impair ADCC."

Notable studies

 * 2019, Mitochondrial alterations in NK lymphocytes from ME/CFS patients - (Abstract)

Online presence

 * LinkedIn profile

Learn more

 * Uncovering Biomarkers – Fcg receptors in ME/CFS, by Suzanne D Vernon, PhD for Bateman Horne Center newsletter