Bio
Nerea is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Dr. Joseph Wu's lab. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). She was in an exchange program at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) where she completed her Honours Thesis project on the Regulation of the Metastasis Suppressor Protein CREB3L1 in Dr. Deborah H Anderson's lab. She received her Masters' degree at Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) working at Dr. Isabel Liste Noya's lab on The role of p27Kip1 in the pluripotency and differentiation of dopaminergic neurons. She obtained her Ph.D. in Dr. Naweed Syed's lab studying the Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying anesthetic-induced cytotoxicity, and their impact on learning and memory. She has received an ATRAC postdoctoral fellowship (Aug 2022 - Aug 2023), an AHA postdoctoral fellowship (Apr 2023 - Sept 2024) and currently holds a TRDRP Postdoctoral Fellowship (Jul 2024 - Jun 2027) titled "Using a human in vitro platform to study the effects of cannabinoids on the cardiovascular system" .
