BIO
Natalia Tapia Seco (Carlet, Valencia, 1976) is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, which she joined after being project group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine and directing her own research group at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.
PROJECT
She specializes in cellular reprogramming (one of her articles on induced neuronal cells has been cited more than 200 times in four years). The project will analyze whether the TET3 gene is involved in cystic fibrosis, the most common lethal autosomal recessive disease triggered by a mutation in the CFTR gene.
In fact, some patients with this disease do not have a mutation of the CFTR, which suggests other unknown causes, probably epigenetic.