Elisa Oltra

Elisa Oltra, aka Elisa Oltra Garcia, 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, US, 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
Chair of the Biomarkers Working Group and a member of 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 and Prevention.

EUROMENE
Participating member of the Biomarkers Working Group of EUROMENE, a European Union, COST Action CA15111, not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Notable studies

 * 2017, The European ME/CFS Biomarker Landscape project: an initiative of the European network EUROMENE - (Full Text)
 * 2018, Identification of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-associated DNA methylation patterns - (Full Text)
 * 2018, Unraveling the Molecular Determinants of Manual Therapy: An Approach to Integrative Therapeutics for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - (Full text)
 * 2018, Culturing Adult Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapeutics: Neuroimmune Applications - (Full text)
 * 2019, Impact of Polypharmacy on Candidate Biomarker miRNomes for the Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Striking back on Treatments - (Abstract)
 * 2019, Epigenetic Components of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Uncover Potential Transposable Element Activation - (Full text)
 * 2020, Assessing diagnostic value of microRNAs from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and extracellular vesicles in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2020, Unravelling myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): Gender‐specific changes in the microRNA expression profiling in ME/CFS - (Full text)

Talks and interviews

 * 2016, Speaker at the 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference on "Molecular Biomarkers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis" - DVD available
 * 2018, UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference - MRC Funded Update: Persistent fatigue induced by interferon-alpha: a novel, inflammation-based, proxy model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome