Sonia is investigating the Immunologic properties of allogeneic MSCs for therapeutic applications.
Researcher in
2010-Present Postdoctoral researcher NUI Galway – REMEDI. Immunology group. Head lab Prof. Rhodri Ceredig. The immunologic properties of allogenic MSCs for therapeutic applications.
2005-2010 Head of the Sequencing Core Facility. Research Centre Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain.
2006-2009 Predoctoral Researcher, Cellular Reprogramming laboratory, Head lab. Prof. Miodrag Stojkovic. The effect of the oxygen level in the transcriptomic profile and differentiation capacities of human embryonic stem cell lines (hESC).
2003-2005 Research & Development Personnel, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Effect of hypoxia on the concentration of adenine nucleotides in mussel hemolymph.
2004-2005 Unit of Molecular Medicine of the Univesity Hospital of Santiago (CHUS), led by Dr. Angel Carracedo. Genome Sequencing techniques.
1999-2003 Research & Development Personnel, Dep. of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela. Evaluation of the role of fire in the conservation status of special and vegetative communities of EU interest.
2010-Present Science Foundation Ireland. REMEDI II Postdoctoral Fellow. Immunology group.
2005- 2010 Regenerative Medicine Program of Valencia with funding from the Instituto Carlos III and the Valencian Health Ministry . Research & Development Personnel.
2003-2005 Plan Labora Xunta de Galicia. Spain. Research & Development Personnel.
1999-2003 EU.FEDER. Research & Development Personnel.
Stem Cells. 2010 Mar 31;28(3):407-18. Hypoxia promotes efficient differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to functional endothelium.
Prado-Lopez S, Conesa A, Armiñán A, Martínez-Losa M, Escobedo-Lucea C, Gandia C, Tarazona S, Melguizo D, Blesa D, Montaner D, Sanz-González S, Sepúlveda P, Götz S, O'Connor JE, Moreno R, Dopazo J, Burks DJ, Stojkovic M.
Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, Avenida del Autopista del Saler 16, 46013 Valencia, Spain.
Posters:
Variable Selection for Multifactorial Genomic Data.
S Tarazona1, Prado-López S2, J. Dopazo1, A Ferrer3 , A Conesa1.
VII Colloquium Chemiometricum Mediterraneum Granada, Spain 21-24 Jun.2010.
Genetic profile of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) grown under different O2 concentrations
Sonia Prado, David Montaner, Dario Melguizo,Rubén Moreno, Joaquín Dopazo and Miodrag Stojkovic.
Select Conferences/Stem Cells Europe. Amsterdam the Netherlands. 2008.
-NMR Metabolic Profiling of the In Vitro Hypoxic Response of H9 Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
D. A. MacIntyre1, S. Prado Lopez2, B. Jiménez1, D. Melguizo2, R. Moreno Palanques2, M. Stojkovic2 and A. Pineda Lucena1.
1H4th National Meeting of the National Spanish NMR group (GERMN) from the Royal Spanish Chemistry Society (RSEQ). Seville. 2008
Oral communication:
David A. MacIntyre1, Sonia Prado Lopez2, Beatriz Jiménez1, Darío Melguizo2, Rubén Moreno Palanques2, Miodrag Stojkovic2 and Antonio Pineda Lucena1.
ANALYSIS OF THE IN VITRO HYPOXIC RESPONSE OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS BY 1H-NMR METABOLOMICS
EuroMar conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2008.
Talks:
Sonia Prado-Lopez.
“Gene Expression Workshop”:Tools for studying gene expression. Microarrays and real-time PCR. Organized by: The Biomedical Valencia institute (IBV), Superior Center of Science Research (CSIC), and SA. Biosciences. Dec. 2008.









