Lina Youssef studied medicine at Damascus University, Syria, specializing in obstetrics and gynaecology. After finishing her degree, she did her doctorate in the Fetal and Perinatal Medicine programme at the University of Barcelona, where she researched different phenotypes of preeclampsia and foetal growth restriction using “-omic” technologies. Once she finished her doctorate, she joined the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, where she was awarded a Juan de la Cierva grant.
Now, at IDIBAPS she will form part of the Fetal and Perinatal Medicine group led by Eduard Gratacós as a postdoctoral researcher, where she will carry out her project entitled, “Machine learning-based identification of personalized intervention strategies to prevent preeclampsia and its consequences on cardiometabolic health”.
BITRECS (Biomedicine International Training Research Programme for Excellent Clinician-Scientists) is an IDIBAPS grant programme funded by the “la Caixa” Foundation. This programme provides the opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher with a ‘clinician-scientist’ profile to dedicate himself/herself intensively to biomedical research for 3 years on a project within the activity of an IDIBAPS group. In addition, it provides high-level professional training with the aim of developing a future leader in his or her area of specialization. The "la Caixa" Foundation cofunds this program since the first edition in 2017.
