Helena Rodríguez Caro

Helena Rodríguez Caro is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Lausanne under Prof. Tatiana Petrova. She holds a DPhil in Women’s and Reproductive Health (Oxford, 2019), MSc in Clinical Embryology (Oxford, 2015), and BSc/Dip. in Biochemistry from the University of Navarra (2014).

• Education: DPhil (Oxford 2019), MSc (Oxford 2015), BSc/Dip. (Navarra 2014)

Her research focuses on maternal vascular adaptations during pregnancy, specifically lymphatic changes supporting nutrient demands and their role in pregnancy disorders. She has explored seminal fluid vesicles in endometrial receptivity, arteriovenous patterning via NFAT transcription factors, and hypertensive pregnancy disorders through the OxWATCH cohort study.

• Awards: Rafael del Pino Scholarship, Gustav Born Scholarship, John Fell Fund grant, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship

She has held roles including postdoc in Prof. Sarah de Val’s group (arteriovenous signaling) and Junior Research Fellowship at Kellogg College. Currently affiliated with Oxford as a Visiting Fellow while conducting postdoctoral research in Switzerland.