Alodia Lacueva Aparicio is a postdoctoral researcher currently working in collaboration with the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Ester Vázquez’s research group.  She has been working in our group since 2015 and in 2017 she took part in a project (DPI2015-65401-C3-1-R) supported by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.  This project was about the development of a kidney-on-a-chip model integrating organized cell co-cultures in order to perform nephrotoxic assays among other applications. Her PhD project was about developing more sophisticated in vitro models that could mimic the physiology of the renal tissue in order to perform nephrotoxic assays.

Recently she has been part of the Graphene Flagship Core Project 3 where she developed a kidney-on-a-chip model for evaluating graphene toxicity under fluid flow conditions. Now she is developing a device for the recreation of an atheroma plaque using the organ-on-a-chip technology and keeps collaborating with other members of our group.