Prof. Mónica LOPEZ FANARRAGA is currently a Professor at the University of Cantabria and leads the Nanomedicine group at the IDIVAL Institute (Santander) formed by more than 30 scientists. Mónica has a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Zaragoza (1989), a PhD from the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom, 1993) and a PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cantabria (1999). During her postdoctoral training, she carried out stays at the Hubrecht Laboratorium (Holland, 1994), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, Germany 2000), and the University of Vigo (2021). Mónica has been awarded more than 40 competitive research projects. Currently, she is the principal investigator of 2 national projects in nanomedicine and is a member of networks of excellence such as the MSCA-Doctoral Network “Melomanes”, several COST-actions or the Spanish NanobioApp or Nanomed Spain. Out of more than 60 JCR publications in the fields of nanomedicine, neurobiology and molecular/cell biology, including articles in Nature, JCB, ACS Nano, Adv. Healthc. Mat., J. Nanobiotech or Angewandte Chem, Mónica has led more than 40 articles as PI and 5 patents in this field. Mónica actively participates in pre-/post-doctoral researchers’ training and has been/is the tutor of 9 postdoctoral researchers and 10 competitive predoctoral fellowships (e.g., FPU, p-FIS, i-pFIS, and Regional FPI) and has supervised 10 defended doctoral theses, 5 of them awarded the “Extraordinary Prize”, and the last two, the “Juan Mª Parés” Prize for the best doctoral thesis in biomedicine from the University of Cantabria. For her contributions, the Spanish Platform for Innovation in Health Technology (Fenin) awarded her the “Best Researcher Award” in 2022. http://mlfanarraga.wix.com/gruponanomedicina