Maria Hernandez-Fuentes
Head of Translational Biology for Immunology
UCB Celltech
UK
Biography
Maria Hernandez-Fuentes studied Medicine at Universidad Complutense and then completed PhD in Immunology at Universidad de Alcalá, both in Madrid, Spain. She then moved to the UK, Imperial College London, working on alloimmune responses. In 2005, the research group moved to King’s College London and since then she led the biomarker research group of the MRC Centre for Transplantation. She has a long standing interest in understanding and quantifying alloimmune responses and immune monitoring in kidney transplantation; particularly looking at obtaining evidence of tolerance.
Research Interest
Quantifying alloimmune responses and immune monitoring in kidney transplantation