meet María

I obtained my PhD in Biochemistry in 2011. During my training, I have worked both in national and foreign institutions, such as MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (UK) and Harvard Medical School (US). In the last years I have published 37 papers with more than 5600 citations so far. I have participated in 20 International Conferences and obtained several competitive grants, from FEBS, US Fulbright International Program, MINECO, Community of Madrid, AECC, La Caixa… among others.
From 2015, as senior postdoc, I have led at CNIO the development of a new technology, aimed to improve the differentiation capacity of stem cells. I recently published the initial part of this project in The EMBO Journal (as first and co-corresponding author) and submitted a patent application, now in national phases. Recently in 2019, I was awarded- as Project Leader- by two prestigious Innovation Programs from Spain and US (Caixa Impulse and MIT IDEA2 Global) to develop our technology one step forward.
Now, from August 2020, I have started my own research group as Junior PI at Complutense University (Madrid), together with my PhD student Nuria García. We are focused on the development of novel Advanced Therapies and funded by the AECC Scientific Foundation and La Caixa Foundation.
2020
AECC Investigador, as Junior Principal Investigator
- Complutense University of Madrid. Spain
2019
Caixa Impulse Innovation Program (as project leader)
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“La Caixa Foundation” and “Caixa Capital Risc”. Spain
2019
IDEA2 Global Innovation Program (as project leader)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT. US
2018
AECC Investigador, as Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
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Spanish National Cancer Research Center, CNIO. Spain
2017
Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Postdoctoral Contract
- Spanish National Cancer Research Center, CNIO. Spain
2016
Fulbright Scholarship
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Boston Children´s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. USA
2012
AECC Junior Postdoctoral Contract
- Spanish National Cancer Research Center, CNIO. Spain
2010
FEBS Fellowship
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MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee. UK
2009
CAM PhD Contract
- Complutense University of Madrid. Spain
2005
FPU PhD Fellowship
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Autónoma University of Madrid and Complutense University of Madrid. Spain
2005
I3P Graduated Student Fellowship
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Autónoma University of Madrid and Spanish National Research Council CSIC. Spain
2005
Graduated student Fellowship
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Autónoma University of Madrid and Spanish National Research Council CSIC. Spain
2004
Undergraduate student Fellowship
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Autónoma University of Madrid and Spanish National Research Council CSIC. Spain