Dr. Maria Jose Santos-Martinez is a medical doctor, specialist in respiratory medicine, from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). She started her training as a basic researcher at The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases at UTHealth (University of Texas Health Science-Houston-USA) in 2004. In 2006, she moved to Ireland and defended her PhD in 2009 (Trinity College, Dublin). She was appointed as Assistant Professor (Ussher) in Nanopharmaceutical Drug Discovery in 2010 and is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences & School of Medicine. Her research is mainly focused on the contribution of platelets to cancer progression (tumor invasion, angiogenesis, and blood metastasis) and blood compatibility of nanomaterials.