Montse Olivé has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Barcelona. She completed her residency in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Bellvitge University Hospital. She is a Doctor of Medicine from the Central University of Barcelona. From the beginning of her training, she was interested in the study of muscular diseases. After completing her residency, she obtained a scholarship from the Pí i Sunyer Foundation to carry out her doctoral thesis at the Neuropathology Unit of the Hospital de Bellvitge where she trained in muscular pathology. After a long career at the Bellvitge University Hospital combining his activity in the clinic and in the Pathology Service, in 2020 he joined the Neuromuscular Diseases Unit of the Neurology Service of the Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP) in Barcelona , of which she is currently the director.

From the care point of view, she performs the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with muscle diseases, neurophysiological studies, as well as the diagnosis of muscle biopsies in collaboration with other members of the team.

Montse Olivé has extensive experience in the clinical and electrophysiological evaluation of patients affected by myopathies, and is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the field of muscular pathology and electron microscopy of skeletal muscle in humans and in experimental models of myopathies.

Her research work has focused on the clinical and morphological characterization of genetically determined muscle diseases, especially diseases with protein aggregates, and on the search for genes responsible for new entities.

In 2010 she worked for 6 months as a visiting researcher at the Neuromuscular Morphology Unit at the Institute de Myologie, in Paris. She has published more than 125 articles in indexed journals, and has contributed significantly to the definition of clinical and pathological phenotypes in various muscle diseases and the description of new myopathies.

She is a member of the research committee at the European Neuromuscular Center (ENMC), and co-chair of the Protein Aggregate Myopathies consortium at ENMC. She is chair of the working group on muscle pathology in the European network of neuromuscular diseases (ERN-NMD), member of the Executive Committee at the ERN-NMD and co-author of the document “Recommended standards for muscle pathology”.
She is the author of two chapters of the book “Muscle Diseases, Pathology and Genetics” of the International Society of Neuropathology.

She regularly participates as a teacher at the Myology Summer School, at the Institute de Myologie, in Paris, as well as at the Latin American School of Myology (EVELAM).

Academic training

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Barcelona, 1987
• Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Barcelona, 1995
• Thesis: Expression of parvalbumin in rat striated muscle during postnatal development and in experimental models of denervation and regeneration of muscle fibers.
• Scholarship Expansion Studies. (BAE 10/00048). Researcher at the Neuromuscular Morphology Unit, at the Institute of Myologie, Hospital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris. July 2010-December 2010.

Research areas

• Clinical and pathological approach to muscle diseases, particularly genetically determined diseases.
• Clinical and morphological characterization of myopathies with protein aggregates.
• Clinical and pathological characterization of new muscle diseases.

Scholarships and Awards

• Principal investigator in research projects of the Health Research Fund (FIS) since 1997.
• Grant from the Genzyme Foundation: “Characterization of a new form of autophagic vacuolar myopathy with lysosomal pigment deposit”
• 2019 “Fem Pinya” Award from the Association of Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases (ASEM Catalunya).
• NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES Award-2019 from the Spanish Society of Neurology, scientific category, 2019.
• EDUARD BERTRAN RUBIO Award from the Catalan Society of Neurology, 2021 for her professional and academic career.