Andrea Perez-Iturralde

Andrea was born in Pamplona, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from University of Navarra. Then, she completed a master’s degree in Drug Research, Development & Innovation and earned her PhD in Applied Medicine and Biomedicine. During these years, Andrea had the chance to study in detail the transduction mechanism of Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors.

She joined the Translational Vectorology Research Unit at CMRI in July 2022 to develop different variants of AAV vectors for therapeutic purposes.