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Laura Gutiérrez, PhD

Associate Professor / Principal Investigator
University of Oviedo - ISPA
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Laura Gutiérrez, PhD, Associate Professor I3 (University of Oviedo) and Principal Investigator (ISPA)
Laura Gutiérrez obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology (Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology) at the Faculty of Biology, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), in 1998. She obtained an MSc in Biotechnology in 2000 at The Montfort University (Leicester, United Kingdom, with Distinction), having completed her Master’s dissertation under the supervision of Dr A. de Klein from the Genetics Department (ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands). She then joined the Cell Biology Department in ErasmusMC as a PhD researcher, initially supervised by Dr. D. Whyatt, and obtained her PhD in 2005 (thesis title: “Studies on Gata1: Cell Cycle, Survival and Differentiation”), under the supervision of Professor F. Grosveld and co-supervised by Professor J. Philipsen. She continued in the Cell Biology Department as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor J. Philipsen’s research group, where she developed her own lines of research, focusing on haematopoietic lineage specification and the role of Gata1 in these processes.
She was awarded a VENI grant (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research -NWO- “Transcriptome-wise dendritic cell manipulation”) and she joined Sanquin Research (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in 2010 as a junior group leader in the Blood Cell Research Department (headed by Professor T.K. van den Berg), where she focused on megakaryopoiesis and platelet function. She returned to Spain on a Ramón y Cajal contract and, after two years at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (San Carlos Health Research Institute, Madrid), she works as Principal Investigator at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA, Oviedo, Spain) since January 2018 and is appointed by the University of Oviedo (Department of Medicine) as Associate Professor I3. The Platelet Research Lab led by Laura Gutiérrez studies megakaryocytic differentiation and platelet production and function in health and disease.

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