Nerea A. Madariaga

Nerea Argarate (female) is a Project Manager of Nanomedicine Programme of CIBER-BBN. She obtained her PhD in Pharmacy (University of Basque Country, 2010). Her research is focused on the materials for Health. She has participated in autonomic, national and European projects. From 2002 to 2008 she worked between the laboratories of AZTI (Basque Country) and CSIC (group of Nanobiotechnology, Nb4D group, IQAC-CSIC). She worked in the research of novel diagnostic methods for Food Safety and Quality within the context of Spanish and European Consortium Projects. Moreover, in 2008, she was enrolled as Researcher of the CIBER-BBN at INASMET (since 2011 Tecnalia Reseach and Innovation, Basque Country) where she had to face completely new and challenging research objectives related to Biomaterials for health. Her work was related with polymers for in vitro diagnostics and new controlled drug delivery systems mainly in national projects. Since 2016, she works for the Management Area of CIBER-BBN as a Project Manager of Nanomedicine. Her main areas of interest are nanodiagnostic methods based on easy-to-handle Point-of-Care (PoC) devices and therapeutic nanoconjugates for controlled release systems.