Dr. Laura Gutiérrez obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology (Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology) at the Faculty of Biology, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) in 1998. She obtained an MSc in Biotechnology in 2000 at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). She then joined the Cell Biology Department at ErasmusMC as a PhD researcher and obtained her PhD in 2005. She continued in the Cell Biology Department as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor J. Philipsen’s research group, where she developed her lines of research, focusing on haematopoietic lineage specification and the role of Gata1 in these processes. She was awarded a VENI grant (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research -NWO- “Transcriptome-wise dendritic cell manipulation”) and she joined Sanquin Research (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in 2010 as a junior group leader in the Blood Cell Research Department, where her research focused on megakaryopoiesis and platelet function. She returned to Spain on a Ramón y Cajal contract and, after two years at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos - IdISSC (San Carlos Health Research Institute, Madrid), has been working at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias -ISPA (Health Research Institute, Oviedo) since January 2018 as Principal Investigator, affiliated as Associate Professor with the Department of Medicine at the Universidad de Oviedo.