Carolina’s natural curiosity about the world led her to study Biotechnology at the University of Zaragoza, where her journey into research began. She completed her Bachelor’s thesis on “The preliminary study of ESX-3 and ESX-4 systems in Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis” at the University of Pavia (Italy) as an Erasmus exchange student.
During her Master studies in Global Health, she focused on the multidisciplinary, sustainable and ethical approach to research. She did her Master’s thesis on “Towards the heart-on-chip as a model of human heart disease” in the TME Lab.
Currently, Carolina is pursuing her Ph.D. within the group, working on “Heart-on-chip as a model for cardiac clinical challenges and development of advanced therapies”.
Specifically, she wants to develop heart-on-chip microfluidic systems to recapitulate human cardiac pathophysiology, such as ischemia and chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity, and RNAi-based therapies to treat these conditions.
Passionate about personalized medicine and disease modeling, Carolina is actively involved in science communication activities and is in the process of obtaining her animal experimentation certification. With a keen interest in bridging the gap between research and real-world applications, she is excited by the potential impact of her work.