Raquel Capote is a predoctoral researcher working in the malaria and NTDs laboratory at the Nacional Center of Tropical Medicine part of Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Currently she is enrolled in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine P. H. D. Program from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She graduated from the UCM in 2020 with a degree in Biology, specialised in Health Biology, during which she took an internship at the Research Institute for Rare Diseases, where she performed molecular diagnosis of alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency by PCR and sequencing of the SERPINA1 gene. For her bachelor’s thesis, she worked with the Parasitology department of the UCM in the morphometric and molecular identification of parasitic nematodes of Capreolus capreolus. She finished a master’s degree in Health Biology at the UCM in 2022, for which she took a year-long internship at the Nacional Centre of Tropical Medicine at the Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Laboratory. For her master’s thesis, she collaborated in the design and validation of three hydrolysis probes for the diagnosis of loiasis and mansonellosis.