Celia Regal, new pre-doctoral researcher at La Fe de Valencia thanks to the agreement with Conquistando Escalones

Celia Regal is the new pre-doctoral researcher who has joined the team of the Neuromuscular Pathology and Ataxia Laboratory of La Fe in Valencia, led by Dr. Juan Jesús Vílchez. She replaces Marta Selva, also a pre-doctoral fellow, who has taken another career path, but we are grateful to her for all this time working and in fact she follows the progress of the research and we keep in touch. Being able to carry out these contracts has been thanks to the agreement signed between the La Fe de Valencia Research Institute and the Conquistando Escalones Association at the end of 2020, in order to collaborate financially in the research carried out by said center on Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 1F- D2 and which was renewed in the summer of 2022 with a payment close to 30,000 euros that must be renewed in the coming months.

Celia Regal studied Biotechnology at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and was in her career internship and then doing her final degree project in the laboratory of Dr. Rubén Artero, also a researcher of our disease, in Spinal Muscular Atrophy projects. She has experience in myoblast cultures and other techniques applied to muscle, which has been very positive to start from her incorporation to work on everything that is already underway. In addition, she is now doing a Master’s in Biostatistics at the University of Valencia.

We would like to welcome Celia as well as thank her for her work and extend this to the rest of the team led by Dr. Vílchez from IIS La Fe, who also, as we told you a few days ago, have achieved a vital step on the road to a cure of Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy 1F-D2.