Dr Laura Bravo Merodio

Dr Laura Bravo Merodio

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Assistant Professor in Health Data Science

Contact details

Address
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Laura Bravo Merodio is an Assistant Professor of Health Data Science in the Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences.

Her work is focused on understanding human physiology, ageing and disease, using systems biology approaches and population health data.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computational Biology, 2023
  • MSc in Mechanisms of the Inflammatory Disease (MIDAS), University of Birmingham, 2018
  • B.Eng in Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 2016

Teaching

MSc Health Data Science 

Other activities

Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) Co-director of Online and Communication (2023/24)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

AMBROSE Collaborative 2024, '30-day Morbidity and Mortality after Cholecystectomy for Benign Gallbladder Disease (AMBROSE): A Prospective, International Collaborative Cohort Study', Annals of surgery. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000006236

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery & STARSurg Collaborative 2024, 'A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts', The Lancet Digital Health, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. e507-e519. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00065-7

Onwuka, S, Bravo-Merodio, L, Gkoutos, GV & Acharjee, A 2024, 'Explainable AI-prioritized plasma and fecal metabolites in inflammatory bowel disease and their dietary associations', iScience, vol. 27, no. 7, 110298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110298

Aziz, F, Slater, LT, Bravo-Merodio, L, Acharjee, A & Gkoutos, GV 2023, 'Link prediction in complex network using information flow', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 14660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41476-9

Bentley, C, Hazeldine, J, Bravo, L, Taylor, AE, Gilligan, LC, Shaheen, F, Acharjee, A, Gkoutos, G, Foster, MA, Arlt, W & Lord, JM 2023, 'The ultra-acute steroid response to traumatic injury: a cohort study', European Journal of Endocrinology, vol. 188, no. 3, pp. 290–299. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejendo/lvad024

Sharma-Oates, A, Zemedikun, D, Kumar, K, Reynolds, J, Jain, A, Raza, K, Williams, J, Bravo Merodio, L, Roth Cardoso, V, Gkoutos, G, Nirantharakumar, K & Lord, J 2022, 'Early onset of immune-mediated diseases in minority ethnic groups in the UK', BMC medicine, vol. 20, no. 1, 346. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02544-5

Williams, JA, Russ, D, Merodio, LB, Cardoso, VR, Pendleton, S, Aziz, F, Acharjee, A & Gkoutos, G 2021, 'A causal web between chronotype and metabolic health traits', Genes, vol. 12, no. 7, 1029. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12071029

Aziz, F, Acharjee, A, Williams, JA, Russ, D, Bravo-Merodio, L & Gkoutos, GV 2020, 'Biomarker Prioritisation and Power Estimation Using Ensemble Gene Regulatory Network Inference', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 21, no. 21, 7886. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21217886

Bravo, L, Acharjee, A, Hazeldine, J, Bentley, C, Foster, M, Gkoutos, G & Lord, J 2019, 'Machine learning for the detection of early immunological markers as predictors of multi-organ dysfunction', Scientific Data, vol. 6, no. 1, 328. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0337-6

Chapter

Bravo-Merodio, L, Acharjee, A, Russ, D, Bisht, V, Williams, JA, Tsaprouni, LG & Gkoutos, GV 2021, Translational biomarkers in the era of precision medicine. in Advances in Clinical Chemistry. Advances in clinical chemistry, vol. 102, Elsevier, pp. 192-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acc.2020.08.002

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