Begoña Aran

Begoña Aran obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences in the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. She was senior embryologist at the in vitro fertilization laboratory of the Institut Universitari Dexeus from 1986 to 2007. She was the Stem Cell Bank Coordinator at the CMRB between 2007 and 2010. From 2010 to 2012 she was responsible for the Project Support Unit at the Advanced Therapies of the Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT). In March 2015, she re-joined the CMRB now the Regenerative Medicine Programme of IDIBELL as Stem Cell Bank Coordinator. Her activity is focused on the derivation, generation, culture, characterization and banking of human Pluripotent Stem Cell (hPSC). Coordinator of projects related to hPSC registration and hPSC banking. She is also interested in legislation and bioethics in hPSC research and clinical translation.