Begoña Ubilla García

Begoña Ubilla, BSc Education: 2003 Pathological anatomy technician ("Instituto de Educación Secundaria Cantabria") 2005 Laboratory technician ("Instituto de Educación Secundaria Cantabria") Career profile: Since 2007, she has been working in different biomedical research groups linked to the University of Cantabria and "Fundación Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla" (IDIVAL). Currently, she is working at the "Epidemiology Genetics and Atherosclerosis Research Group on Systemic Inflammatory Diseases", Rheumatology Division, IDIVAL (Santander, Spain). She participates at Spanish projects like: "Personalized Medicine in HCV infection: understanding and predicting hepatic and systemic responses in the era of the new antiviral drugs", The "RETICS Program" (RIER), and different health investigation projects supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III - Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, focused on the study of genetic markers of endothelial dysfunction, subclinical atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, as well as other relevant biomarkers in different inflammatory systemic diseases, including Henöch-Schönlein Purpura, spondyloarthropathies, psoriasis, etc. She also participates in the European project "PRECISESADs", aimed to find biomarkers, which will help to better classify patients diagnosed with systemic autoimmune diseases. Accordingly, she has proven experience in different laboratory techniques, especially in Cell and Molecular Biology, and Genetics.