Jesús Castro-Marrero

Jesús Castro-Marrero, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Division of Internal Medicine, CFS/ME Clinical Unit, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.

Dr Castro-Marrero is actually working at Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Center which has been NIH-funded with $10.4M leaded by Prof Maureen Hanson. His research is focused on Extracellular Vesicles/Exosomes biology and decoding the mRNA and miRNA expression cargo from EVs before and after of a 24h CPET challenge in a gender-specific manner from ME/CFS individuals.

EUROMENE
Dr. Castro-Marrero is a Working Group Leader of EUROMENE, a European Union not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Education

 * 1999 - Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Valladolid University, School of Medicine, Spain
 * 1987 - B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Havana, Cuba

Notable studies

 * 2018, Poor self‐reported sleep quality and health‐related quality of life in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (Abstract)
 * 2018, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Evidence for an autoimmune disease (Full Text)
 * 2018, Circulating extracellular vesicles as potential biomarkers in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: an exploratory pilot study (Full Text)
 * 2017, Treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: all roads lead to Rome (Full Text)
 * 2017, Comorbidity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study (Abstract)
 * 2015, Does Oral Coenzyme Q10 Plus NADH Supplementation Improve Fatigue and Biochemical Parameters in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? (Full Text)
 * 2015, Diagnostic concordance between categorical and dimensional instrument to assess personality in chronic fatigue syndrome: PDQ-4+ and TCI-R (Abstract)
 * 2015, Childhood trauma in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: focus on personality disorders and psychopathology (Abstract)
 * 2015, Gender Differences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2014, Impact of the fibromyalgia in the chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2013, Screening NK-, B- and T-Cell phenotype and function in patients suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2013, Could mitochondrial dysfunction be a differentiating marker between chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia? (Abstract)

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * ResearchGate
 * Curriculum Vitae