- Susana González López
- Junior group leader
- Ext.2307
Susana Gonzalez obtained her degree in Chemistry and Molecular Biology
at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1994. Susana
devoted her thesis work to the study of the molecular mechanisms of
influenza virus under the supervision of Dr. Juan Ortin at the Centro
Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid. She received her PhD
from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
In 2000, Susana was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human
Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to work in New York with Carlos Cordon-Cardo
at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Carol Prives at Columbia
University. Her work in this period focused on different tumor suppression
responses. She subsequently moved to Manuel Serrano’s laboratory
at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (Centro Nacional
de Investigaciones Oncológicas, in Madrid), where her work
helped identify the mechanisms governing the expression of the INK4/ARF
locus and the mechanisms through which miRNAs induce heterochromatinization
to silence gene promoters. In 2006 Susana was granted an HFSP Career
Development Award. She joined the CNIC in 2007.
