I studied Medicine (Universidad Complutense) and did a PhD in Immunology (Universidad de Alcala) in Madrid, Spain. Since moving to the UK I have been working on alloimmune responses (Imperial College London). In 2005 the research group moved to King’s College London and shortly after I started leading the Biomarker Research Group in the MRC Centre for Transplantation. From 2011 - 2016 I was Senior Lecturer in Translational Research. In Sept 2016 I started working in UCB Celltech, Slough; since then I am Visiting Senior Lecturer at King's.

The Biomarker Research Group aimed to translate into the clinic Biomarkers that could be predictive of kidney transplant outcome and could eventually enable biomarker-lead individualisation of therapy. This has given me a good overview on how to develop biomarkers of clinical utility. I have a long standing interest in understanding and quantifying alloimune responses and immune monitoring in kidney transplantation; particularly looking at obtaining evidence of tolerance. Of late this has translated into focusing on the role of B lymphocytes in transplantation tolerance.

I have a degree on Teaching and Learning in Higher education and I am Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK. I am an active member of the society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU). I am also active member of the BTS, TTS, AST and ESOT.

In UCB I am leading the team doing Translational Biology for Immunology, generating biological evidence in human tissue of the effect of the drugs in the pipeline and working in improving the Biomarker strategy in the company.