Rosa Peracaula Miro
University of Girona, Spain
Biography
Dr. Rosa Peracaula completed her PhD at the University Ramon Llull, Barcelona in 1995. Since 1995 she joined to the group of Biochemistry at the University of Girona and performed postdoctoral stays at MS Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (1997) and at the University of Oxford (2001 and 2002). Since 2003, she is associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Girona and leads the research group of Glycobiology and Cancer with projects related to find new biomarkers associated to changes of glycosylation in serum proteins and aimed to understand the role of the altered glycosylation in the tumorigenic process. She has three patents and has published over 25 scientific articles in international journals, some of them with more than 150 citations. She has directed five Doctoral Theses and has also given several presentations at national and international conferences. The research performed over these years has a strong translational component, with important collaborations with medical doctors and several national and international groups.
Abstract
Abstract : Altered glycosylation in cancer