Dr. Ángela Moncada Pazos

I did my PhD in Carlos Lopez-Otin group in Oviedo, Spain. I was working on cancer biology, trying to understand how metalloproteases of the ADAMTS family affect tumorigenesis, mainly through the use of cellular and animal models.

After finishing my PhD I moved to the UK and joined the Freeman lab; that was in February 2013, while the group was still in Cambridge. I was working at the MRC LMB for six months and was part of the small seed that started up the new lab in Oxford: we were only three people and had only a centrifuge and two pieces of electrophoresis equipment! That feels like a long time ago and now we fight for space as in any other functional lab. My work is focused on the rhomboid-like protein TMEM115. It is a small, inactive and unnoticed protein, but still I love it. I wish to bring to it the admiration it deserves, as an extremely conserved protein that seems to play a role in the control of lipid homeostasis in the cell.

email: angela.moncadapazos(at)path.ox.ac.uk