Beatriz Hernández Suárez is a PhD student at the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Science. She successfully obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biology in 2015 and a master’s degree in Biomedicine in 2016 from Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, Spain. Much of the results that Beatriz obtained for her master’s degree dissertation were published in Scientific Reports (Chk1 KA1 domain auto-phosphorylation stimulates biological activity and is linked to rapid proteasomal degradation. Gong EY, Hernández B, Nielsen JH, Smits VAJ, Freire R, Gillespie DA. Sci Rep. 2018 8:17536. PMID: 30510197). Her current research study addresses the searching for new anti-cancer therapy targets on the DNA damage response (DDR) system in canine cancer. She is interested in the study of DDR to understand better cancer mechanism and the ways to defeat it.