María A. Balboa

María A. Balboa holds a doctorate in Immunology from the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain. To specialize in lipid signaling, she moved to the U.S. to work in the Department of Pharmacology of the University of California at San Diego, under the supervision of Prof. Paul Insel. Later she moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the same university to work under the supervision of Prof. Edward Dennis. She returned to Spain as a Spanish Research Council's Assistant Professor in the University of Valladolid School of Medicine. She is currently a Professor in this institution. Her work is focused on how innate immune cells respond to stimuli by changing their lipid composition. Her recent work has revealed a relationship between the regulation of lipid metabolism and the intensity of the immune response.