CTS1076: Cardiovascular Cell therapy and Cardiovascular proteomics

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1700-0141

Dr. Duran is actually associate professor of Biochemistry, and she has been working since 2013 at the University of Cadiz (UCA), teaching at both un-dergraduate and Master students, mainly Biotechnology and Biomedicine related studies. As researcher, she has more than 18 years of experience in the application of proteomics applied to biomedical research, mainly in cardiovascular diseases but also in cancer. She got her Degree and PhD in Biochemistry at the Complutense University, Madrid (2000-2004) and she completed her training at the University of Southern Denmark (2003-2004, with a Marie Curie Trainee Fellowship) and as a post-doctoral researcher at the University College, London (2005-2009). He has wide experience in the application of proteomic and mass spectrometry tools, but also has knowledge in several techniques for protein validation and further characterization (interference RNA, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy).
DR. Duran has got funding since 2013, from national (PI12-2680, PI16-00784, ISCIII), european(XS-00158, XS-00229, 7º EU Framework), and autonomic/FEDER (PI0026-2017, ITI-Cadiz), mainly focused on the application of cell therapy in cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerois and critical limb ischemia mainly. Actually, she is the IP of a group registered at the INIBICA (IN-CO23) and also as a PAIDI group (CTS1076, under evaluation). She has a patent accepted at a national level, related to the use of atherosclerotic secreted factors as a source to explain activation of circulating cells such as EPC (P201500877). She also got funding for equipments at the MICINN 2018 (>800.000 euros, EQC2018-004982-P y EQC2018-004871-P). She also collaborates with Rexgenero Biosciences, a company focused on the application of Cell therapy in critical limb ischemia, we are currently testing the efficiency of their product Rex-001 in a murine model of CLI. Dr. Durán has published more than 30 papers in JRC, most of them as first or last, corresponding author, and 5 book chapters. Total number of citation: 643/620, H-index: 12 (web of science)