Elisa Oltra

Elisa Oltra, PhD., is a professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at the Universidad Cat&oacute;lica de Valencia "San Vicente M&aacute;rtir", Valencia, Spain. Her areas of research include stem cell, cancer, fibromyalgia and genetics.

2017 Ramsay Award
A team comprised of Dr. Elisa Oltra of Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain, and Drs. Lubov Nathanson, Vladimir Beljanski and Malav Suchin Trivedi of Nova Southeastern University, USA, were awarded a 2017 Ramsay Award grant from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative for researching the effect of ME/CFS on epigenetic regulation in specific immune cell types.

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project
Dr Oltra serves on the Baseline/Covariate Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. This working group reviewed data collection instruments widely used by investigators in the ME/CFS field, and either recommended their use unchanged or (more often) proposed some modifications.

Notable studies

 * 2017, The European ME/CFS Biomarker Landscape project: an initiative of the European network EUROMENE (Full Text)

Talks & interviews

 * 2016, Speaker at the 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference on "Molecular Biomarkers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" DVD available