Affiliation: Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC)

Dr. Laia Josa-Culleré is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), as a Marie Curie Individual Fellow and later with a Juan de la Cierva–Incorporación. She works with Dr. Amadeu Llebaria’s group, which has extensive experience in photopharmacology. She is developing light-activable drugs that can eliminate populations of cancer stem cells with high selectivity and precision. Dr. Josa-Culleré received her BSc in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona and an MPhil in Organic Chemistry from Cambridge. She pursued a PhD with Prof Mark Moloney at the University of Oxford. She continued her postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with Prof Angela Russell’s group, where she developed novel small molecules that induced differentiation of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells in vitro and in vivo.