Dr. Mª Ángeles Ávila-Gálvez (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

 

Dr. Ávila-Gálvez started her scientific career at CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain) to investigate the chemopreventive activity of (poly)phenols against breast cancer under the supervision of Prof. JC Espín and Dr. A. González-Sarrías. The broad scope of the project she worked on allowed her to get inmersed in a wide range of in vitro (celular and molecular biology techniques) and in vivo experiments following the approach "first in vivo and then in vitro". Her genuine interest in producing clean and reproducible data, her capacity of thinking in ways to solve problems and her ability to pay attention to detail are reflected in the Cum Laude mention received by her Thesis.

In 2021, Dr. Ávila-Gálvez took a new step in her research career and joined Dr. Claudia Santos group (Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica -iBET-; Oreiras, Portugal). This step was a new challenge to deepen in the understanding of the anti-inflammatory potential of bioactive terpenes and the anti(neuro)inflammatory effects of (poly)phenols (including microbial and circulating metabolites) withing the ERC project led by Dr. Claudia Santos.

Her backgroung in nutrition and food science as well as her knowledge in metabolomics and molecular biology are the perfect match to accomplish the objectives of the PolyBiota and AngioPhenol projects. Let´s see if the recently published paper is the first of many.