Investigación - Nuestro equipo

Marianna Karachaliou, MD, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher in epidemiology in ISGlobal in Dr Kogevinas group and member of the research group of the Rhea birth cohort in Crete. She is a paediatrician and epidemiologist and has specialised in epidemiology of infectious diseases and has extensive experience in links between infections and NCDs in children. She joined ISGlobal in 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher in a La Marato de TV3 funded project on the acquisition of infections in early life and association with health outcomes. She actively participates in the planning and analysis of data of the COVICAT study on Covid-19 in Catalonia. 

Líneas de investigación

• Infectious diseases
• NCDs
• Child health

Principales publicaciones

• Marianna Karachaliou, Gemma Moncunill, Ana Espinosa, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Rocío Rubio, Marta Vidal, Alfons Jiménez, Esther Prados, Anna Carreras, Beatriz Cortés, Natàlia Blay, Marc Bañuls, Vanessa Pleguezuelos, Natalia Rodrigo Melero, Pau Serra, Daniel Parras, Luis Izquierdo, Pere Santamaría, Carlo Carolis, Kyriaki Papantoniou, Ximena Goldberg, Ruth Aguilar, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Rafael de Cid, Manolis Kogevinas, Carlota Dobaño. SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccination and antibody response trajectories in adults: a cohort study in Catalonia. BMC Medicine (2022) 20:347 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02547-2 
• Marianna Karachaliou, Silvia de Sanjose, Theano Roumeliotaki, Katerina Margetaki, Marina Vafeiadi, Tim Waterboer, Leda Chatzi, Manolis Kogevinas Heterogeneous associations of polyomaviruses and herpesviruses with allergy-related phenotypes in childhood.. Annals of Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021 Apr 23;S1081-1206(21)00302-1. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.04.019. 
• Karachaliou M, de Sanjose S, Waterboer T, Roumeliotaki T, Vassilaki M, Sarri K, Leventakou V, Vafeiadi M, Chalkiadaki G, Stiakaki E, Michel A, Pawlita M, Kogevinas M, Chatzi L Is early life exposure to polyomaviruses and herpesviruses associated with obesity indices and metabolic traits in childhood? Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jan 30. doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0017-1
• Karachaliou M, L Chatzi, A Michel, A Kyriklaki, M Kampouri, K Koutra, T Roumeliotaki, G Chalkiadaki, E Stiakaki, M Pawlita, T Waterboer, M Kogevinas, S de Sanjose Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and childhood neurodevelopment in the Rhea birth cohort in Crete, Greece. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology  doi: 10.1111/ppe.12374
• Karachaliou M, L Chatzi, T Roumeliotaki, M Kampouri, A Kyriklaki, K Koutra, G Chalkiadaki, A Michel, E Stiakaki, M Kogevinas, M Pawlita, T Waterboer, S de Sanjose  Common infections with polyomaviruses and herpesviruses and neuropsychological development at 4 years of age, the Rhea birth cohort in Crete, Greece. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 2016; doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12582