Alba Pérez-Cantero

Alba Pérez-Cantero is a Research Fellow at ISGlobal, specializing in biomedical research focused on malaria parasites. She earned her BSc in Biotechnology from Universitat Rovira and Virgili and her MSc in Advanced Microbiology from Universitat de Barcelona. In 2020, she completed her PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Rovira and Virgili's Microbiology Unit.

• Current Role: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Malaria Epigenetics Lab under Dr. Alfred Cortés
• Key Research: Heterochromatin formation and maintenance in Plasmodium falciparum

Her work explores molecular mechanisms in parasitic organisms, contributing to understanding epigenetic regulation in infectious disease contexts. Research intersects microbiology, biomedical science, and parasitology, with potential applications in malaria treatment strategies.