María Martínez-Fernández – PhD Student

merimf@usal.es

I studied Biotechnology at the University of Oviedo (Asturias, 2017-2021). Once I finished, I moved to Salamanca to obtain a MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Salamanca. During my MSc thesis, I joined the Neurobiochemistry laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León, led by Dr. Arantxa Tabernero, where I studied the antitumor effect of a cell penetrating peptide based on the structure of connexin43 in a murine glioma stem cell line. In December of 2022, I obtained a fellowship from the Junta de Castilla y León to do the PhD in the lab, thanks to which I will continue studying the therapeutic potential of this peptide both in vitro and in vivo.