Short biography
Dr. Mariona Graupera is an ICREA Research Professor at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. She received her training as a PhD working with Prof. Jaume Bosch at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and as a postdoc with Prof. Bart Vanhaesebroeck at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and at the Bart’s Cancer Institute in London. In 2009, she established her laboratory as an independent investigator at the Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge funded by the Ramon y Cajal program. From that moment, she embraced the opportunity to create a multidisciplinary laboratory devoted to study the mechanisms that regulate the vasculature in development, homeostasis, and disease. In February 2021, she joined the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute as Group leader with an interest to study the ties between the hematopoietic and endothelial cell linages. In June 2022, she was appointed president of the European Vascular Biology Organization.
