Cristian Launes Montaña
Investigador
Research group
Cristian Launes graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 2005 and specialized in Pediatrics in 2010 at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona. In 2009 he began predoctoral training in clinical medicine (Pediatric Infectious Diseases, SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital, University of Barcelona) and biomedical research (Infectious diseases and systemic inflammatory response in pediatrics, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona), specializing in respiratory viruses. He completed the Master of Research in Clinical Sciences (University of Barcelona). In 2012 he obtained his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Barcelona with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his thesis on the 2009 pandemic influenza virus.
Later, he became a post-doctoral researcher in the pediatric infectious diseases translational research group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu. Currently, he is a researcher in the Pediatric Infectology Research Group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu and a researcher at the CIBER for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP). He has been principal investigator of several competitive projects (in AES and CIBERESP calls) and has more than 40 publications with an impact factor, of which 60% occupies some position of principal or senior authorship, mainly focused on the impact of viral respiratory diseases on children's health.
Since 2011, he has been an adjunct pediatrician at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona. The healthcare areas of special interest, and which have developed the most during this time, are the diagnosis and treatment of children with infectious diseases and the global treatment of children and adolescents after highly complex procedures and surgeries.
He has been teaching and tutoring residents, accredited by the Department of Health, since 2014. MIR Teaching Coordinator of Paediatrics since December 2019. Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Barcelona (Campus Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona). Lecturer in courses in the areas of pediatric hospital care, pediatric infectious diseases, and management of newborns and critical children.
SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital Last Publications
- Fernandez-Garcia MD, Garcia-Ibañez N, Camacho J, Gutierrez A, Sánchez García L, Calvo C, Moreno-Docón A, Menasalvas AI, Medina A, Perez-Ruiz M, Nieto Toboso MC, Munoz-Almagro C, Launes-Montana C, Berengua C and Cabrerizo M Enhanced echovirus 11 genomic surveillance in neonatal infections in Spain following a European alert reveals new recombinant forms linked to severe cases, 2019 to 2023. EUROSURVEILLANCE . 29(44): .
- Armero-Campos G, Guitart-Pardellans C, Soler-García a, Melé M, Esteva-Afonso C, Brotons-de los Reyes P, Munoz-Almagro C, Jordán-García I and Launes-Montana C Non-Pharmacological Interventions During SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Effects on Pediatric Viral Respiratory Infections. ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA . 60(10): 612-618.
- Pons-Tomas, Gemma, Hernandez-Garcia, Maria, Mele-Casas, Maria, Fernández de Sevilla-Estrach M, Launes-Montana C, Girona M, Rios-Barnés M, Bassat Q, Ajanovic, Sara, Cubells M, Claverol J, Penela-Sanchez, Daniel, Jou-Munoz C, Manuel Monsonis Cabedo, Esteva-Afonso C, Fassanella, Assumpta, Cuadras-Palleja D, Munoz-Almagro C, Jordán-García I, Fortuny-Guasch C, García-García JJ and Fumadó V Clinical Characterization, Transmissibility, and Seroconversion of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children (before the Start of Vaccination) in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (Spain) Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases . 19(05): 251-259.
Projects
- Project name:
- SGR 2022-2024_Enfermedades Infecciosas en la Edad Pediátrica y Microbioma
- Leader
- Carmen Muñoz Almagro
- Funding entities:
- Agaur - Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- Code
- 2021 SGR 00396
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2022 - 2025
- Project name:
- Rinovirus humano (HRV) en niños menores de 5 años, del resfríado común a la unidad de intensivos: rol de la microbiota.
- Leader
- Cristian Launes Montaña
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PI17/00349
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2018 - 2022
- Project name:
- SGR 2017_Malalties infeccioses a l’edat pediàtrica. Grup consolidat de recerca en malalties infeccioses en l'edat pediàtrica.
- Leader
- Carmen Muñoz Almagro
- Funding entities:
- Agaur - Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- Code
- 2017 SGR 00742
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2017 - 2021
News
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New insights into COVID-19 protection in children have revealed the presence of sACE2 in the saliva
The presence of the soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (sACE2) in saliva could have implications for COVID-19 infection, prevention and control, according to researchers from the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu and the University of Catalunya. This study has been published in Scientific Reports.
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Relationship of environmental exposure to nitrogen oxide with the severity of rhinovirus infection
Researchers at Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) · SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital have found that exposure to higher concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen oxide in childhood is associated with greater severity of rhinovirus infection and a higher number of admissions to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
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From the common cold virus to severe respiratory illness in children
Dr Cristian Launes and Dr Carmen Múñoz (IRSJD researchers) with Dr Daniel Penela-Sánchez and Dr Georgina Armero started a project in 2017 to understand the severity of rhinovirus and enterovirus infection in children.
More activities
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Defensa tesi doctoral: Maria Melé Casas
Auditori Plaza (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu) and online
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Defensa tesi doctoral: Daniel Penela Sánchez
Auditori Plaza, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu · Online