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Marta Lopez-Fraga PhD
Scientific Officer
European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM)
Strasbourg
France
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Marta López-Fraga, Ph.D. is the Scientific Officer in charge of the donation and transplantation activities at the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM), Council of Europe in Strasbourg (France).
She received her B.Sc. in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain). She did her postdoctoral fellow at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego (USA), and in 2006 she joined Neurome Inc. of the University of California, Riverside (USA), to work on the development of targeted mucosal vaccine delivery technologies for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008 she became a Senior Scientist with Sylentis, Madrid (Spain).
Since 2011, she has been in charge of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO), the steering committee responsible for transplantation activities at the Council of Europe. The CD-P-TO actively promotes the non-commercialisation of organ donation, the fight against organ trafficking, and the development of ethical, quality and safety standards in the field of organs, tissues and cells. Activities include the publication of the Council of Europe ‘Guide to the quality and safety of organs for transplantation’ and the ‘Guide to the quality and safety of tissues and cells for human application’, both leading guidance documents in the field.
She received her B.Sc. in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain). She did her postdoctoral fellow at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego (USA), and in 2006 she joined Neurome Inc. of the University of California, Riverside (USA), to work on the development of targeted mucosal vaccine delivery technologies for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2008 she became a Senior Scientist with Sylentis, Madrid (Spain).
Since 2011, she has been in charge of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO), the steering committee responsible for transplantation activities at the Council of Europe. The CD-P-TO actively promotes the non-commercialisation of organ donation, the fight against organ trafficking, and the development of ethical, quality and safety standards in the field of organs, tissues and cells. Activities include the publication of the Council of Europe ‘Guide to the quality and safety of organs for transplantation’ and the ‘Guide to the quality and safety of tissues and cells for human application’, both leading guidance documents in the field.