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Gemma Muruais

Patent Adviser

Biotechnology

Universidad Alcala de Henares, Licenciate, Biology (2002)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Ph.D., Biomedicine (2008)

Dr. Muruáis is a patent adviser in the biotechnology department. Her practice is focused on patent prosecution and opinion work in the area of biotechnology, particularly in relation to molecular biology, pharmacogenomics, gene therapy, immunology, animal models, diagnostic methods and the production of pharmaceutically active substances using genetically modified organisms.

Before she started at ABG, Dr. Muruáis was a post-doctoral researcher at Hospital Universitario La Princesa (2009-10), working on cardiomyocytes and the effect of hypoxia on their lipid metabolism, and at the Center for Molecular Biology, Severo Ochoa (2003-09), working on regulation of glucose transport in adipocytes. Her thesis work involved stays at the Universities of Ghent and Leiden.

She has published papers in peer-reviewed journals (Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, Journal Cellular Physiology) and presented her work at international scientific meetings.

Dr. Muruáis is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.