Mercedes Robledo PhD

Mercedes Robledo Born in Madrid, She studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she graduated in Biology in 1987. She then joined the Genetic Department of the same University supervised by J. Fernández-Piqueras, working on the cytogenetic and molecular characterization of heterochromatin. In 1989, under the supervision of J. Benítez, she studied the characterization of chromosomal and molecular alterations of lymphomas for which she was awarded her Ph.D.

In 1995 she was appointed as the staff member of the Genetics Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Madrid). Since 1996 she has been working on the characterization of hereditary endocrine cancer. Robledo moved to the CNIO in 2000. Mercedes is an Honorary Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a member of the Spanish Society of Human Genetics.