Digestive Tract

Strategic objectives

Lines of research

Functional Digestive Disorders

Population and clinical epidemiology of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and functional digestive disorders

  • Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of coeliac disease
  • Population and clinical epidemiology of GERD
  • Population and clinical epidemiology of functional digestive disorders
  • Methodology in epidemiological studies and development of patient-centred outcome measures

 

Hepatology

  • Genetic factors related to natural history and treatment response in viral hepatitis
  • Pathogenic, pathophysiological, clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of liver diseases, with special reference to viral hepatitis, liver cancer, iron overload states, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

 

Inflammatory bowel disease

  • Immunogenetics in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Epidemiological studies in immunogenetics in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Use of radiological tests in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Treatment response studies in immunogenetics in inflammatory bowel disease

 

Physiology and pathophysiology of the motor activity of the digestive system

Other members of the group

  • Ángel Álvarez Sánchez
  • Francisca Cuenca Alarcon
  • María Luz Del Castillo González
  • Maria Jose Devesa Medina
  • Natalia López Palacios
  • Juan Luis Mendoza Hernández
  • Carmen Poves Frances
  • Blanca Serrano Falcon
  • Mª Concepción Sevilla Mantilla
  • Carlos Taxonera Samsó

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Projects