Roser Vento-Tormo

Roser Vento-Tormo is a Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute specializing in Cellular Genomics. Her research focuses on immune cell adaptation in tissues, particularly at the maternal-fetal interface, using single-cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, and bioinformatics to decode cellular interactions in health and disease.

• Education:
  • PhD in Biomedicine, University of Barcelona
  • Part-Time MSc in Biomedical Technology

Research Interests center on immune microenvironment dynamics, reproductive biology, and epigenetic regulation. Her work on CellPhoneDB (a ligand-receptor interaction database) has advanced understanding of multi-subunit signaling complexes and non-protein ligands like steroid hormones.

Scientific Contributions include groundbreaking studies on pregnancy immunology, autoinflammatory diseases, and developmental cell atlases. She pioneered the first single-cell map of the maternal-fetal interface and epigenetic signatures in dendritic cell differentiation.

• Awards:
  • EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • HFSP Long-Term Fellowship
  • PFIS Predoctoral Fellowship
  • F1000 Associate Faculty Member

Laboratory Resources include the CellPhoneDB database for cell-cell communication analysis and collaborations with the Human Cell Atlas initiative. Her lab integrates genomics, bioinformatics, and gene editing to study tissue ecosystem rewiring in disease and development.