Laura Gutiérrez

Laura Gutiérrez obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology (Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology) at the Faculty of Biology, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), in 1998. She obtained an MSc in Biotechnology in 2000 at De Montfort University (Leicester, United Kingdom, with Distinction), having completed her Master’s dissertation under the supervision of Dr A. de Klein from the Genetics Department of the ErasmusMC (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). She then joined the Cell Biology Department in ErasmusMC as a PhD researcher, and obtained her PhD in 2005 (thesis title: “Studies on Gata1: Cell Cycle, Survival and Differentiation”), under the supervision of Professor F. Grosveld and co-supervised by Professor J. Philipsen.

She continued in the Cell Biology Department as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor J. Philipsen’s research group, where she developed her own lines of research, focusing on haematopoietic lineage specification and the role of Gata1 in these processes.

She was awarded with a VENI grant (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research -NWO- “Transcriptome-wise dendritic cell manipulation”) and she joined Sanquin Research (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) in 2010 as a junior group leader in the Blood Cell Research Department (headed by Dr. T.K. van den Berg), focusing on megakaryopoiesis and platelet function. She returned to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship and, after two years at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (San Carlos Health Research Institute, Madrid), she moved to Oviedo (Spain) in January 2018. She is currently Associate Professor I3 at the Department of Medicine of the University of Oviedo and Principal Investigator of the Platelet Research Lab at the Health Research Institute of the Principality of Asturias (ISPA).