Marta Velasco Martín

Biography

My research career reflects my interest in the influence of culture in scientific research. I graduated in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) in 2010. With the final project on Development of the methodology of protein arrays and its application to markers of progression in colon cancer, I started my research career. Directed by José Manuel Cuezva Marcos, professor at the Department of Molecular Biology of the UAM, I developed a methodology to predict the prognosis of colon cancer considering biomedical data of patients and social data. Between September 2009 and October 2012 I worked in the anthropology teaching committee of the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the UAM with a Collaboration Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science (September 2009-September 2010) and with a Help to start studies in graduate programs of the UAM (November 2010-October 2012). I collaborated in the research of the group led by María del Pilar Montero López creating databases and collecting sociodemographic, anthropometric and food habits data from a gender perspective. Between October 2010 and October 2011 I studied the Master in Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender of the University Institute of Studies of Women-UAM and I did the final master's work on Influence of the support of the couple in the correct development of pregnancy, of childbirth and in the maternal and child health that was directed by María Pilar Montero López.

Research Interest

Philosophy