Maria Victoria Gómez Gaviro, PharmD, PhD, is a pharmacologist and a doctor in biochemistry. Her PhD focused on anti-inflammatory drugs and leukocytes extravasation. She did a postdoc at the National Institute for Medical Research (MRC) in London, UK, funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship for the study of the role of the vasculature in neural stem cell niches and animal stroke models. She then moved to Madrid to the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, funded by a second Marie Curie Fellowship. She has been interviewed about her career and research projects by Circulation and by different popular Spanish radio stations. Currently, she has her own research group in the Optical Unit within the Experimental Medicine and Surgery Unit.