Montserrat Blazquez-Domingo

Montserrat joined EDCTP in September 2007. As Senior Project Officer, she is the focal person for the malaria portfolio and oversees and monitors a large portfolio of multi-country grants in the area of malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis research implemented in resource-limited settings. In addition, she also manages and oversees calls for proposals, from grant application, management of the peer-review process, etc. to post-award evaluation. Montserrat has a personal interest in clinical research uptake into policy, and access to health innovations in low- and middle-income countries.

Montserrat holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Friedrich Miescher Institut (FMI)/University of Basel, Switzerland. Her post-doctoral research focused on Biomedical Immunology and Haematology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-Heidelberg) in Germany and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (Erasmus-MC) in the Netherlands, respectively. Prior to joining EDCTP, Montserrat worked in the scientific publishing sector at FEMS, TU Delft (Netherlands), where she was responsible for the manuscript management and peer-review process of two international scientific journals.