"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

I am a PhD student in cancer immunotherapy at Guy´s Hospital (King´s College London, KCL) and Barts Cancer Institute (BCI). My doctoral research, led by Dr. Sophie Papa (KCL) and Jane Sosabowski (BCI), aims to increase the success of cancer immunotherapy for solid tumours by developing an absolute quantitation method for genetically modified T-cell-based therapies. I investigate chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell behaviour in pre-clinical models using dual isotope PET/SPECT/CT imaging. My research is kindly supported by the CRUK City of London Center.

I hold a BSc in Biotechnology from the University of Salamanca (Spain), having completed my final year at University of Melbourne (Australia) and an MRes in Molecular and Cellular BioSciences from Imperial College London. In the past, I have worked on different projects in neuroscience and synthetic biology. Before joining KCL, I worked with Dr. Karin Straathof at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in the development of T-cell based therapies for two childhood cancers i.e., neuroblastoma and DIPG. I also worked on the dissociation of fresh tumour samples to assess for candidate target antigen expression using scRNAseq.

I enjoy sharing my research not only with other researchers but also with members of the general public, so please do get in touch if you would like to know more.