Visiting 4th year PhD Student under the Proteocure STSM Grant
Degree(s)
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy – University of Barcelona 2020
Profile
Ainoa is from Barcelona, Spain. She graduated with a degree in Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona in 2020. During her undergraduate studies, she performed a stay at the Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof. Carmen Escolano and the Research Porgramm offered by the Pharmacy Degree, where her project was awarded with honors.
She pursued her master thesis at the Verhlest Laboratory in the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, under the supervision of Dr. Marta Barniol and Prof. Dr. Steven Verhelst in 2019. Then, she went back to Spain to start her PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry at the Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory and GaldeLab under the co-supervision of Prof. Carmen Escolano and Dr. Carles Galdeano in October 2020. Her research project is based on the development of innovative drug candidates for undruggable proteins to find more effective therapeutic cancer treatments with the use of PROTACs as a novel drug modality.
Outside the lab, Ainoa is a triathlete and she enjoys running, cycling during the weekend and training for her competitions. Also, she loves travelling and reading.