About me

Mario Ezquerra, PhD, received his undergraduate degree in biology in 1994 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He then received his PhD in biology from the Central University of Barcelona in 2000, where he studied genetic factors associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Later, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Chartier-Harlin at the Institute Pasteur of Lille (INSERM, France) and in the Fundació Clínic de Barcelona. He also briefly worked as a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Ezquerra was a Miguel Servet Researcher in the Carlos III Health Institute in Spain and a member of the Centers for Networked Biomedical Research (2007-2017). Since 2017, he is a consolidate researcher in the August Pi i Sunyer Biom

Featured publications

Featured Projects

  • Análisis Ómicos de cultivos de fibroblastos de enfermos de Parkinson con mutaciones en el gen LRRK2

    Principal investigator: Mario Antonio Ezquerra Trabalon
    Funder: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (FIS) Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo
    Code: PI20/00259
    Duration: 01/01/2021 - 01/04/2024
  • MicroRNAs as biomarkers of the prodromal stage of Parkinson disease

    Principal investigator: Mario Antonio Ezquerra Trabalon
    Funder: Institut d`Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Sede o evento); MJ Fox Foundation
    Duration: 01/01/2017 - 01/01/2019
  • MicroRNAs como biomarcadores de conversión de trastorno conductual de sueño REM a enfermedad de Parkinson

    Principal investigator: Mario Antonio Ezquerra Trabalon
    Funder: Institut d`Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Sede o evento); Fundacion Tatiana Guzman el Bueno
    Duration: 01/01/2017 - 01/01/2019
  • Epigenetic analysis of iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons and blood cells inParkinson disease.

    Principal investigator: Mario Antonio Ezquerra Trabalon
    Funder: CONSORCI INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMEDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER (Sede o evento); Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias
    Duration: 01/01/2015 - 01/01/2017
  • Gene-gene interaction analysis of the mTOR pathway in L-DOPA induced dyskinesia

    Principal investigator: Mario Antonio Ezquerra Trabalon
    Funder: Universitat de Barcelona (Sede o evento); MJ Fox Foundation
    Duration: 01/01/2015 - 01/01/2016