Maria Cobo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Maria M Cobo is a postdoc with the Department of Paediatrics and member of the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group, under the supervision of Professor Rebeccah Slater. The aim of her research is to understand which factors influence pain response in early life with a focus on how early onset neonatal infection impact the pain response in newborns. Maria is also interested in clinical research that could be translated into better ways of managing infant pain.
Maria’s background includes a degree in Biotechnology (BEng) at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Ecuador. She subsequently moved to Scotland where she obtained her MSc degree in Clinical Trials and Stratified Medicine at the University of Glasgow, and was awarded an Excellence Academic Scholarship from the Ecuadorean government to undertake a DPhil in Paediatrics investigating pain processing on the newborn infant at University of Oxford. Maria is also a Visiting Researcher at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.
Recent publications
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Establishing a standardised approach for the measurement of neonatal noxious-evoked brain activity in response to an acute somatic nociceptive heel lance stimulus
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Aspbury M. et al, (2024), Cortex, 179, 215 - 234
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The association between ibuprofen administration in children and the risk of developing or exacerbating asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Baxter L. et al, (2024), BMC Pulm Med, 24
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Parental experience of neonatal pain research while participating in the Parental touch trial (Petal)
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van der Vaart M. et al, (2024), Pain
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Statistical analysis plan for the Petal trial: the effects of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates
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Baxter L. et al, (2023), Wellcome Open Research, 8, 402 - 402
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The PiNe box: Development and validation of an electronic device to time-lock multimodal responses to sensory stimuli in hospitalised infants
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Worley A. et al, (2023), PLOS ONE, 18, e0288488 - e0288488
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Premature infants display discriminable behavioral, physiological, and brain responses to noxious and nonnoxious stimuli
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van der Vaart M. et al, (2022), Cerebral Cortex, 32, 3799 - 3815
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Multicentre, randomised controlled trial to investigate the effects of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates (Petal).
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Cobo MM. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12