Dr. Antonia Avila Flores is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Immunology and Oncology at the National Center of Biotechnology (CNB) in Madrid, Spain. She received her PhD in Cellular Physiology from the CINVESTAV in Mexico City, studying the tight junction protein ZO-2 and its regulation by PKC (2002). She was a post-doctoral researcher first at the Molecular Biology Center Severo Ochoa (CBM-SO) and then a Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral fellow at the National Center of Biotechnology (2005). She was then a recipient of the Spanish Association to fight Cancer (AECC) for Cancer Research (2008-2013). Her main aim is to better understand the signaling mechanisms that control cancer progression and alterations in inflammatory processes, as well as the search for new targets that could be useful to treat these pathologies.