Marta de Los Reyes Jimenez

Marta de los Reyes Jiménez graduated as a Biochemist at the University of Salamanca (Spain). From 2013 to 2015, she worked for Wageningen University in collaboration with the Top Institute Food and Nutrition (TIFN) in the Netherlands, where her research focused on the development of new strategic approaches to improve the detection of allergens from novel protein sources and their incorporation into industrial applications. In 2015, she started her PhD at the group of Dr. Julia Esser-von Bieren at the Centre of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM) in Munich (Germany). The main focus of her PhD was to look for new therapeutic approaches against airway inflammation using helminth parasite products, studying how these parasite products reprogram the lipid mediator pathways in myeloid and epithelial cells. During her PhD, she was awarded an EAACI Research Fellowship to dissect the mechanisms of steroid resistant leukotriene synthesis in macrophages from Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory diseases (AERD) patients. The experimental part took place at ZAUM, and the LC-MS/MS analysis for eicosanoid quantification was performed during a reserach visit to the Wheelock laboratory during the summer of 2018.