Rosana Simon-Vazquez's Biography

Rosana Simon-Vazquez, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Vigo

Dr. Rosana Simón-Vázquez obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona in 2009. She worked in characterization of structure and dynamics of transport proteins using protein engineering and biophysical techniques.
In 2010 she joined the laboratory of Immunology at the University of Vigo, led by Prof. África González Fernández, where she has studied the activation pathways in cells, and conformational changes in human plasma proteins, both induced by nanoparticles. Having been awarded a post-Doc grant, Rosana will be, from May 2014 and for the next two years,advancing on the research of nanomedicine applied to treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at the laboratory of Targeting and Release of Poorly Stable Drugs, of the Institut Galien (Paris).