Carmenza Spadafora holds a bachelor of science that she obtained studying in the Department of Chemistry of Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her Ph.D. was obtained from the University of Granada, Spain, for conducting research at the Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine “López-Neyra”. After her first postdoctoral training at the University of Central Florida, she moved to the Walter Reed Army of Institute of Research to work with now Ret COL José A. Stoute in the identification of the “X Receptor” of malaria. Carmenza Spadafora is currently the coordinator of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology of Diseases (CBCMe) at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Research and High Technology Services (INDICASAT AIP) in Panama. She is a distinguished member of the National Research System of that country, a senior member of the International Society of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (IEEE-EMB), and an appointed member of the Indian Society of Biochemistry and Pharmacy. Her lines of research include the treatment of malaria with microwaves; bioprospecting searches for anti-parasitic molecules, communication signals, extracellular vesicles of malaria parasites, and receptors in the human erythrocyte for the invasion of the parasite P. falciparum; and the application of molecular biosensors.