Inmaculada Ballesteros Yáñez

Since 2000, when I obtained a FPU fellowship with Dr. Javier deFelipe at the Cajal Institute, my research has been fully dedicated to obtaining academic specialized training in cell and molecular biology. During my pre-doctoral training, I stayed in other laboratories (Dr. Yuste at Columbia University, which published 3 papers, Dr. Changeux, which I published 1 research work) and collaborated with other researchers such as Dr. Dierssen, Dr. Maldonado, Dr. Valverde or Dr. Ambrosio, which have resulted in publications in research journals of international recognition and connections with groups that I continue working. After four years of Ph.D. student, I obtained a cum laude in the defense of my doctoral thesis related to the effect of drugs on the brain. I did two postdoctoral stays, at the Pasteur Institute and the University of Vanderbilt. In 2008, I was granted a “Juan de la Cierva” contract in the laboratory of neurochemistry at the University of Castilla la Mancha. This allowed me to start as a researcher and teacher at the University. From December 2010, I am Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Ciudad Real in UCLM. In recent years, I have maintained collaborations with the doctors mentioned above, following my training at the University of Southern California and UNED, which has allowed me to continue to publish in my topics of interest and learn very new techniques such as WGCNA. From January 2017, the main line of my research is focused on the effect of drugs on central nervous system analyzed by molecular biology, biochemical and microanatomical studies and molecular strudies in different sanitary conditions or biocompatibility of new materials. Dean of Faculty of Medicine in Ciudad Real from 2021.