Judit Jimenez Sainz, Ph.D.

Judit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She received a BSc and Master (Hons) in Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Valencia in 2007 and was award summa cum laude international merit Ph.D. in Biotechnology in 2012 from the University of Valencia and University College London. She did her postdoctoral training at Yale School of Medicine, and she became research ladder faculty in 2018 in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology.

 

In 2022, Judit was awarded a Lion Heart Cancer Fund award and the CRIS Cancer fellowship as a visiting researcher in Dr. Juan Mendez’ laboratory at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO). She has more than 10 years of experience in projects carried out with the molecular biology of cancer and is the author of seminal studies in high-impact journals such as eLife, Nature, Molecular Cell, and Cell Reports. She has mentored more than 20 students and has directed several research projects. During her time at Yale, she was a Branford College Fellow, an elected representative of Associate Research Scientists in the Faculty Advisory Council of the Yale Medical School Dean’s Office, and a former coordinator of Community and Networking for the Yale Postdoctoral Association. She founded the Research in Progress Seminars to promote collaboration and sharing of scientific process and discoveries in her department.

 

She is a former president of the Spanish Association of Scientists in USA (ECUSA, 2021-2023), a former president of the Spanish Network of Scientists Abroad (RAICEX, 2021) and co-chair of the Science Policy and Talent Attraction commission in RAICEX.