What area best describes your area of work?
Research, Public Health, Environmental Health, Sales, Analytical Services, Food Safety Consultancy
What is the name of your employer/company/institution?
Laboratorio CIFGA
What position do you hold?
PhD Researcher
Experience and expertise in food safety
BSc in Biology in 2003 from the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2004 I obtained a research fellowship in the department of Pharmacology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, where completed my PhD on The Effect of Emerging Phycotoxins in Human Neuroblastoma cells in 2009.
From 2008 I´m employed as a researcher in Laboratorio CIFGA where have been highly involved in the pharmacological applications of marine toxins, dinoflagellates culture activities, and R&D management.
My experience includes 12 original articles and 2 reviews published in international scientific journals, have co-authored 2 book chapters about marine toxins and have participated in different international congresses and also have been involved in 13 national and international research projects.
Laboratorio Cifga S.A. is a spanish chemical-pharmaceutical company devoted to develop certified reference material of marine biotoxins and reagents for research.In Laboratorio CIFGA we have access to a full complement of state of the art biological, organic and analytical instrumentation.
Our products are produced under the supervision of highly qualified chemist and biologist using an extensive and thorough purification process. Identification and quantitation are carried out by NMR spectroscopy or liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Therefore the quality and the reproducibility attained with our production method is a guarantee to all of our customers and an additional value of the products.
Our expertise includes Analytical chemistry methods, Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography, Tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Hydrophilic toxins, Lipophilic toxins...
