Ana B CrujeirasDr Crujeiras' academic and professional trajectory has focused on translational research following a complex training that encompassed basic and clinical research. First finishing her degree in Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Span (July 2002), she then completed her PhD at the University of Navarra (July 2008) in the Nutrition field, implementing a successful treatment to fight obesity and its associated diseases. Later (October, 2008) she joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology at the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS) with a postdoctoral research position. There, she established a new research line on the association between obesity and cancer. From September 2011 to December 2013, in the context of a second postdoctoral stay, she joined the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain.

Currently she leads the Epigenomics in Endocrinology and Nutrition research group at Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), after getting the prestigious position of Senior Researcher recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2018. Read More Read Less