Alex Sánchez Pla

Alex Sánchez Pla

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-8673-7737
Scopus Author ID: 26538945400
Researcher ID: H-8310-2015
Knowledge area: Estadística i Investigació Operativa

Grup de recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica (GRBIO)

Contact Information
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics
Facultat de Biologia. Departament de Genètica Microbiologia i Estadística. Avinguda Diagonal 643
934020949
asanchez(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Biología . Universidad de Barcelona . 18/12/1982 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biología (Probabilitats i Estadística) . Universidad de Barcelona . 06/09/1996 . (Ph.D.)
Master of Science . University of Manchester . 25/11/2005 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Research interests

Statistical Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics

Projects

Statistical methodologies for clinical and omics data and their applications in health sciences (SAMANTHA) . 2020 - 2024 . Ref.PID2019-104830RB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Alexandre Sánchez Pla (UB) i Guadalupe Gómez Melis (UPC)
EOSC-Life: Providing an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe . 2019 - 2023 . Ref.824087 . European Unions Horizon 2020 research programme . PI: Niklas Blomberg
Valorización de EGA para la Industria y la Sociedad.(VEIS) . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.001-P-001647 . FEDER . PI: Arcadi Navarro
Assessorament i coordinació de la Unitat d'Estadística i Bioinformàtica dels serveis cientifico-tècnics de la Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR) . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.309945 . Fundació Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron . PI: Alexandre Sanchez Pla
HDHL-INTIMIC (METADIS)Calidad de carbohidratos adaptada para control de peso personalizado y salud metabólica . 2020 - 2022 . Ref.AC19/00111 . Instituto de Salud Carlos III . PI: Maria Cristina Andres Lacueva

Journal Publications

Pol Castellano-Escuder; Raúl González-Domínguez; David S. Wishart; Cristina Andrés-Lacueva; Alex Sánchez-Pla (2020). FOBI: An ontology to represent food intake data and associate it with metabolomic data. Database . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0162-4105
Sánchez-Pla, A.; Salicrú, M.; Ocaña, J. (2019). An equivalence approach to the integrative analysis of feature lists. BMC Bioinformatics, 20, p. 441 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1471-2105
Urpi-Sarda, M.; Almanza, E.; Llorach, R.; Vázquez-Fresno, R.; Estruch, R.; Corella, D.; Sorli, J.V.; Carmona, F.; Sanchez-Pla, A.; Salas-Salvadó, J.; Andres-Lacueva, C. (2019). Non-targeted metabolomic biomarkers and metabotypes of type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study of PREDIMED trial participants. Diabetes & Metabolism, 45(2), pp. 167 - 174 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1262-3636
Palau-Rodriguez, M.; Tulipani, S.; Marco-Ramell, A.; Miñarro, A.; Jáuregui, O.; Sanchez-Pla, A.; Ramos-Molina, B; Tinahones, F.; Andres-Lacueva, C. (2018). Metabotypes of response to bariatric surgery independent of the magnitude of weight loss. PLoS One, 13(6), p. e0198214 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Matute-Blanch C; Villar LM; Álvarez-Cermeño JC; Rejdak K; Evdoshenko E, Makshakov G; Nazarov V; Lapin S; Midaglia L; Vidal-Jordana A; Drulovic J; García-Merino A; Sánchez-López AJ; Havrdova E; Saiz A (2018). Neurofilament light chain and oligoclonal bands are prognostic biomarkers in radiologically isolated syndrome. Brain . https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy021 . ISSN: 0006-8950
Marco-Ramell, A; Palau-Rodriguez, M; Alay, A; Tulipani, S; Urpi-Sarda, M; Sanchez-Pla, A; Andres-Lacueva, C. (2018). Evaluation and comparison of bioinformatic tools for the enrichment analysis of metabolomics data. BMC Bioinformatics, 19(1) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1471-2105
Navarro A; Clot G; Martínez-Trillos A; Pinyol M; Jares P; González-Farré B; Martínez D; Trim N; Fernández V; Villamor N; Colomer D; Costa D; Salaverria I; Martín-Garcia D; Erber W; López C; Jayne S; Siebert R; Dyer MJS; Wiestner A; Wilson WH; Aymerich M; López-Guillermo A; Sánchez À; Campo E; Matutes E; Beà S. (2017). Improved classification of leukemic B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders using a transcriptional and genetic classifier. Haematologica . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0390-6078
Pujol-Autonell, I.;Serracant-Prat, A.; Cano-Sarabia, M.; Ampudia, R.; Rodriguez-Fernandez, S.; Sanchez-Pla, A.; Izquierdo, C.; Stratmann, T,; Puig-Domingo, M.; Maspoch, D.; Verdaguer, J.; Vives-Pi, M. (2015). Use of autoantigen-loaded phosphatidylserine-liposomes to arrest autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes. PLoS One, 10(6), p. e0127057 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Bazzocco S.; Dopeso.; Carton-Garcia F.; Macaya I.; Andretta E.; Chionh F.; Rodrigues P.; Garrido M.; Alazzouzi H.; Nieto R.; Sanchez A.; Schwartz S Jr.; Bilic J.; Mariadason JM.; Arango D. (2015). Highly Expressed Genes in Rapidly Proliferating Tumor Cells as New Targets for Colorectal Cancer Treatment. Clinical Cancer Research, 21(16), pp. 3695 - 3704 . https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-2457 . ISSN: 1078-0432

Others Publications

Ricardo Gonzalo; Alex Sánchez (2019). Introduction to Microarrays Technology and Data Analysis . In Data Analysis for Omics Sciences: Methods and Applications . Volume. 82 . (pp. 37 - 69) . Elsevier . https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.coac.2018.08.002
Sánchez-Pla, A.; Ruíz de Villa, M.C. (2013). Análisis de datos de microarrays . In Análisis de datos de microarrays . Editorial UOC .
Ricardo Gonzalo Sanz; Alex Sánchez-Pla (2019). Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data . In Microarray Bioinformatics . Springer Nature . 10.1007/978-1-4939-9442-7_5
Sánchez-Pla, Alex (2014). DNA Microarray Technology: Overview and current status . In Fundamentals of Advanced Omics Technologies: From Genes to Metabolites . Volume. 63 . (pp. 1 - 24) . Elsevier . ISBN: 978-0-444-62651-6 .
Sánchez, A.; Fernández-Real, J.; Vegas, E.; Carmona, F.; Amarc, J.; Burcelin, R.; Serino, M.; Tinahones, F.; Ruíız de Villa, M.C.; Miñarro, A.; Reverter, F. (2012). Multivariate methods for the integration and visualization of omics data . In Bioinformatics in Personalized Medicine. 10th Spanish Symposium, JBI 2010, Torremolinos, Spain, October 27-29, 2010. Revised Selected Papers . Volume. 6620 . (pp. 29 - 41) . Springer Berlin Heidelberg . ISBN: 978-3-642-28061-0 . http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1q37475n542n523/

Relevant Activities

Adscripción al grupo (CIBER) sobre 'Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable'

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