Sonia Villapol Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Neurological Surgery
Publications
Sort by
Research
research overview
-
The Villapol Lab’s mission at Houston Methodist Research Institute is to look for novel neurorestorative treatments for brain recovery through the lens of the periphery.
Our lab studies the inflammatory and neurodegenerative mechanisms triggered after brain trauma or stroke in a sex-dependent manner. The laboratory is also investigating the contribution of peripheral signals and the gut microbiome to brain pathology.
Currently, we are using our resources and expertise to focus on understanding the role of the gut microbiome in acute and long COVID-19.
- The Role of Peripheral Inflammation on Brain Damage
- Concussions and the gut microbiome. Clinical Research: exploring the brain-microbiome connection
- Nanoparticles for brain injury: Neuro-Nanomedicine
- Nano-Neurothecnology AND Brain injury: First Biological responders
- The Role of Microbiome in the Neuropathology of Traumatic Brain Injury
- Precision-based microbiota therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.
- Epigenomic memory of estrogen in Alzheimer’s disease
- Mitochondrial replenishment as a therapy in Alzheimer’s disease.
- Enhancing meningeal lymphatic perfusion with AAV-mediated AIBP and VEGFC gain-of-function to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) 2007
- M.S., Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) 2004
- B.Sc., University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2002
Contact
full name
- Sonia Villapol
primary email
- svillapol@gmail.com
- sov4001@med.cornell.edu
webpage
Identity
eRA Commons ID
- SVILLAPOL