Dr. Angélica Figueroa obtained her Degree in Biology at Complutense University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in 1997. She then obtained her PhD studies in 2002 in Molecular Biology at the Biomedical Research Institute in Madrid (Spain). In 2003, she moved to London as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Yasuyuki Fuyita at MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB), University College London where she became interested in studying the epithelial cell plasticity program during tumor progression, metastasis and therapy resistance. In 2009, she established her own lab at the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica A Coruña (INIBIC, La Coruña) where she is Research Group Leader of the Epithelial Plasticity and Metastasis Group