Marta Ruiz Ortega, PhD, has developed her research career in biomedicine in the cardiovascular and renal area. At present, she is Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and she leads a research team within the Cellular and Molecular Biology in Renal and Vascular Pathology Laboratory, placed in the Nephrology Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias Fundación Jiménez Díaz. Her research work has been reflected in publications of high impact, reviews and invited editorials, with more than 200 articles included in Pubmed. She was recognized in 2005 by the “Aula Médica” Award to a Young Investigator Career, granted by the Spanish Society of Nephrology.