Summary
Maria Yanez is an MR Physics Research Associate at the Imperial NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), based at the C3NL lab.
Her research interests focus on the development of molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate the biochemistry of neurological and psychiatric disorders, with a view to characterising disease onset, improving early diagnosis and assessment of therapy effectiveness. Her background includes research in traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's Disease, with techniques such as magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST), both at clinical fields (3T) and high fields (9.4T preclinical).
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Yanez Lopez M, Pardon M-C, Baiker K, et al., 2019, Myoinositol CEST signal in animals with increased Iba-1 levels in response to an inflammatory challenge-Preliminary findings, PLOS One, Vol:14, ISSN:1932-6203
Rossi F, Geiszler PC, Meng W, et al., 2018, NAD-biosynthetic enzyme NMNAT1 reduces early behavioral impairment in the htau mouse model of tauopathy., Behavioural Brain Research, Vol:339, ISSN:0166-4328, Pages:140-152
Pardon M-C, Lopez MY, Ding Y, et al., 2016, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy discriminates the response to microglial stimulation of wild type and Alzheimer's disease models, Scientific Reports, Vol:6, ISSN:2045-2322