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‘I know you have plenty of doubts’, ‘trust yourself’, ‘don’t worry if you are told to ask too many questions.’ Six female researchers who currently work at the main Spanish public center for cancer research, the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), recall the girls they once were in the hope to reach out to the girls of today.
Their working tool: science, and a curiosity all of them say to have felt since childhood. Their stories are our contribution to the International Day of Women and Girls in Sciences:
María Velasco, at the H12O – CNIO Haematological Malignancies Clinical Research Unit, studies why some acute myeloid leukemia patients don’t respond to treatment.
Bárbara Hernando, at CNIO’s Computational Oncology Group, develops computational models to understand the role of certain mutations in the origin and progression of tumors.
Sonia Burgaz, at the Telomeres and Telomerase Group – Fundación Humanismo y Ciencia, works on her postdoctoral thesis about how to use genetic therapy to slow down aging in cells. Her ultimate goal is to use this knowledge to delay, or revert, pulmonary fibrosis progression.
Elena Fernández works on her dissertation at CNIO’s Metabolism and Cell Signalling Group. She studies the influence of high nutrient levels on cancer.
Mar Rigual is a predoc investigator at CNIO’s Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer Group. She works to understand the relationship between liver regeneration mechanisms and the origin of hepatic tumors.
Bruna Calsina is a postdoc researcher at CNIO’s Familial Cancer Clinical Unit. She studies methods to identify people with an inherited higher risk to develop certain cancer types.