I completed my PhD at the University of Barcelona in the laboratory of Dr. Francisco Villarroya, where I studied the role of Sirt1 in the transcriptional regulation of genes important for energy metabolism. After finishing my thesis, I continued to train in New York. First, a year in Dr. Lorraine Gudas’ laboratory where I studied the role of retinoic acid receptors in stem cell differentiation. Also in New York, in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Fisher I studied the role of Cyclin-dependent kinases in the regulation of transcription and also as targets in colorectal cancer. After 4 years in the US, I returned to Barcelona, to the laboratory of Dr. Francesc Posas (UFP/PRBB), where I led two lines of research on cellular stress. On the one hand, the impact of stress on chromatin conformation, and on the other I did a massive screening (using CRISPR/Cas9) to identify new essential stress response genes.
In 2019, I started working at VHIO as an associate researcher in the Translational Genomics of Thoracic Tumors laboratory under the umbrella of Dr. Enriqueta Felip, and since 2023 I have been a Senior Researcher. As head of the laboratory, I lead different translational projects focused on the study of molecular biomarkers of response to new therapies in lung cancer, through the characterization of patient samples using different “omics” techniques.