Xavier Benedicto Molina Email & Phone Number

Hi there! My name is Xavier, I am 23 years old, and I am originally from Barcelona. I underwent my BSc in Biomedical Sciences a year ago at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where I gained experience in several Life Sciences areas such as Immunology, Pathology, Neurosciences, and Bioinformatics. Last year I was enrolled in a MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where I had the chance to learn from great professionals in many Bioinformatic areas and I was able extend my expertise.During my BSc, I had the chance to take an internship at the Institut Josep Carreres Contra la Leucèmia (IJC), a state-of-the-art research centre focused in blood-related neoplastic diseases. There, my tutors teached me how to work with tumoral DNA samples, and how sequence and analyse them, as well as good laboratory practices and teamwork. I learned a lot during this experience, and it led me to choose my next educational focus: Bioinformatics. This interest for the Bioinformatics area led me to Madrid, where I studied my MSc. Later, I moved back to Barcelona to start a Master Student Internship at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center at the Computational Biology group (Alfonso Valencia's lab), where I developed my Master's thesis in several hot topics such as cancer, drug synergies, and metabolic modelling.