Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona Casanova 143 08036 Barcelona. SPAIN Phone: +34 93 402 4518 Fax: +34 93 403 5279 belen@fisiologia.net

M.D. Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, 1996. Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, 2002 Postgraduate student at the laboratory of Robert Schneider, the Biochemistry Department, NYU School of Medicine  from October 1999 to May 2000 and at the laboratory of Pierre Jurdic, Laboratoire de Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, UMR 5665 CNRS/ENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46, allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, November-December, 2001.

Research Interests. Hsp70. Heat shock proteins. Vulnerability of germ cells to heat shock . Mechanisms involved in testicular regression. Gene expression during spermatogenesis. Mechanisms involved in mRNA stability. Angiogenesis and vascular regression.